Quotes About Control

In particular, with my control team, I demanded the responsibilities to do all of the mission preparation, mission design, the writing of the procedures, the development of the handbooks.

Change is a process which has to be managed.

If you have to abuse your power, you're probably in the process of losing it.

To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.

In school, my biggest fear was that I couldn't produce emotion on cue.

The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.

One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.

We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do so by gradually altering those habits, which is to say the networks of our memory. No lasting joke, or invention, or insight, or work of art was ever produced by an external memory. Not yet, at least.

To have produced a product where I had total creative control and see it flourish is like watching a baby grow.

As a producer, I learned not to declare anything about a movie I'm not directing.

The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.

The producer should decide what kind of music is being made, what it's going to sound like - all of it: the why, when, and how.

I had no intention of being a film producer, and I knew I wasn't passionate about engineering. I was always set on having my own business, controlling my own destiny.

I'm not interested in being the producer of somebody else's song.

There's always been some moron-who usually went by the name of 'producer' - who would have to justify his existence, and interfere.

Sometimes the producer has more say and the director takes what he is given. On other occasions, you don't see the producer very much and the director is the one who it is all about.

Some artists want a producer to be a kind of svengali - someone who actually creates a sound for them.

The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer.

I wanted to just be a filmmaker, and I thought I wanted to do all the aspects, and it seemed like as a producer was the best way to do it, because I could have... You never have control on a movie, but you have as much control as you can.

If I was going to do anything, I'd be a producer, only because I'd like to have a say in what gets made and what doesn't.

I never thought being the producer was being the dictator. It means being the director and being the coach. It's a way of keeping everybody focused on the goal, and also having final say. Everybody can be in the same car, but somebody has to drive.

I was the only person at Univision who had complete creative control of my own show, by contract. They didn't like that. I was the executive producer; I owned the studio where we taped. I decided who went on my show and who didn't.

Motion pictures are a director's medium. Broadway is a writer's medium. Television is a producer's medium. I picked a medium I could control.

In America, I don't think you have the creative freedom that I'm used to. Traditionally, it's a producer's cinema here.