Quotes About Leadership

All I ever really work for is to be a really good engineer, a good producer, a good executive, good in the world of Beats. That's power to me.

As an executive producer, I feel really lucky.

It's not a 'sexy' position, being the producer. You have to be very bossy. You have to be very aggressive.

I have become a full-fledged producer. I spend a lot of time on pre-production work.

No one ever said that I couldn't create my own projects, but no one actually told me that I could be an executive producer, either.

Honestly, I don't think it's harder to be a producer as a woman. I think it helps me because I don't get bogged down in shows of male dominance that can sometimes get in the way of the best idea prevailing.

My producer for the first 'Kung Fu Panda' movie, Melissa Cobb, is an amazing woman. She's supersmart and helps push everyone - male, female, anyone - to do their best.

I think that, again, filmmaking is the director's medium in the end, and the best thing a producer can do is stay out of the way and support the director one hundred percent.

Jimmy Iovine, he pretty much started off as an engineer and a producer, and then he started up a label. Then he built his label to have big artists like Dr. Dre and 50 Cent. Then he started up a headphone company and made it a billion dollar business. He's a genius to me.

Rick Rubin was able to do things that Dave Fortman could never do. I'm not trying to take anything away from Dave Fortman as a producer. He's extremely talented. He wasn't able to get nine people together on the same page and, to me, that's the most important thing in making a Slipknot record.

You see, I believe a producer's job today is as important as that of a director.

I'm a producer, not just a beatmaker but a producer.

Every creator has to follow what they believe. That's the message I would love for every single executive to get, to clearly understand, and every single producer out there.

On my 'Mickey' video, I was the director, producer, choreographer, editor, singer - everything.

There's a difference between a beatmaker and a producer.

You know what, I didn't see myself being an executive producer.

There is always a producer within an actor. You just wait for the right time to start functioning as one.

Being a director, just to begin with, is just, I think, one of the hardest jobs just because you have to work in every way. You have to work with actors, you have to be involved with the producers and the writing and the action. Every department comes to you; you have to deal with everything.

I was one of the first women producers in Hollywood.

On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all.

I met all these important people and did all these stories, but I always had such excellent producers and assistants. I could show up to interview a world leader or a criminal and they would have things so well prepared anyone could have done it. It wasn't about 'me,' it was about 'us.'

The producer is at the center of entertainment. The producer is being forgotten, and producers must seize the center of activity.

There are lots of good producers out there.

There seem to be more women producers than men.