In preparation for the 14 week workshop, I started reading the C.T.I. book on producing.
The first page of the book has this quote:
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“I think only people in the theater know what a producer is.
The public does not know.
It knows a writer writes, and an actor acts,
and a director tells them what to do.
A producer raises money.
Well, he does, and in some cases thats all he does.
But the workers in the theater know that this is not the real thing.
A producer is a rare, paradoxical genius –
hard-headed, soft-hearted, cautious, reckless,
a hopeful innocent in fair weather,
a stern pilot in stormy weather,
a mathematician who prefers to ignore the laws of mathematics and trust intuition,
an idealist, a realist, a practical dreamer,
a sophisticated gambler, a stage-struck child.
That’s a producer.”
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Never before have I seen my life summarized so perfectly. For those of you entering the producing realm or continuing to produce, I’m sure you feel the same !
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"It's like being a plumber... You do your job right, nobody should notice... It's only when you fuck up, everything gets full of shit." --Wag the Dog
Posted by: Krug | January 14, 2009 at 01:34 PM