Quotes by Producers

Some of the metaphors you find in 'Wicked' - how those in power can exploit fear in others to maintain their power - I think, as Jews, we've seen that historically on more than one occasion. Marc Platt

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Even in a manuscript form, 'The Girl on the Train' sort of leapt off the pages as a contemporary suspense drama-slash-thriller. It has all the mechanics of a thriller, but at the heart of it was a great character study. Marc Platt

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I am fortunate enough to have worked on, and continue to work on, evolutionary movies in all formats from just simple good story telling, which still matters most of all, to CG movies to tent-pole size 3D movies, and genre 3D movies like 'Piranha 3D.' Mark Canton

There are three things that are important for a film. Number one is story, number two is story, number three is story. Good actors can save a bad script and make it bearable, but good actors can't make a bad script good - they can just make it bearable. Mark Strickson

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Being an actor is often very tedious, which is why it helps hugely if your fellow cast members are also good friends. Mark Strickson

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There are good characters and bad characters. Matt Stone

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And there's a visceral fun in watching Team America and making it, like taking a puppet and throwing it against the wall. Because it's not CG, there's something funny about it. Matt Stone

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I would vote for a Mormon. Matt Stone

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I'm a producer... I am a Hollywood producer. That is so weird. And it's not lame. But it's just like, how did that happen? Matt Stone

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Sometimes I wish I could get fired. Matt Stone

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It's the business of movies, it's the fights that go along with the level of budget, and more than anything, it's the creative constipation of having to live with one idea for two or three years. It's just not that fun. Matt Stone

There's something uniquely aggravating about the smugness of liberal Hollywood. Matt Stone

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So a lot of our shows where even we think we've taken a very deliberate stand, liberals say, 'That's awesome, you took on the conservatives' same show and conservatives say 'That's awesome, you took on liberals.' Matt Stone

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With religion I was always like, 'Does it matter if it's true if it makes you happy?' Matt Stone

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I think the neoatheists have set atheism back a few decades. And I'm a self-described atheist. Matt Stone

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I'm concerned about people being happy. Matt Stone

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I've been to China and Russia, and I don't know anything about Chinese or Soviet relations. Matt Stone

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