Archive for the ‘Producer’ Category

April 6th, 2011 Author Types, Authors, C, Producer No Comments »

Chuck Barris

Spontaneity is such an entertaining facet of show business.
Chuck Barris

The Gong Show provided me with five years of the happiest times of my life, but that’s that. And to be known as the guy who gave the world The Gong Show – listen, my Uncle George isn’t known as anything. So I guess it isn’t so bad in that context.
Chuck Barris

I could never do a show, or be a personality like Howard Stern, where you take all that heat from critics. What he does, he does, but the critical heat would crucify me.
Chuck Barris

There’s tons of creative people in television that have one failure after another, and they just step up higher. I could never get over that. When I had a failure, there was no such thing as just getting over it.
Chuck Barris

April 19th, 2010 Author Types, Authors, G, G, Producer, Topics No Comments »

George Cukor

You can’t have any successes unless you can accept failure.
George Cukor

It is reassuring for people to feel they have a boss, someone who knows the answers and has charted the course.
George Cukor

Unless the story line carries the scenes, the scenes don’t really mean anything.
George Cukor

If she was a victim of any kind, she was a victim of her friends.
George Cukor