Quotes by Brian Grazer - Page 2

Curiosity at work isn't a matter of style. It's much more powerful than that. If you're the boss, and you manage by asking questions, you're laying the foundation for the culture of your company or your group. You're letting people know that the boss is willing to listen.
Brian Grazer / Film Producer
Asking Questions
Curiosity
Manage
Work Culture Your
Letting
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The Porsche was just a vehicle to get to another place. I used it to change people's perceptions of me. I had grown up really middle class. USC was filled with elitists, richies who would go skiing every weekend. So I pretended like I was part of that world - to be accepted.
Brian Grazer / Film Producer
Accepted
Class
Filled
Middle Class
People
Porsche
Skiing
Usc
Vehicle
Weekend
Change World Me
Grown
Perceptions
Pretended
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It's a simple quality of human nature that people prefer to choose to do things rather than be ordered to do them. In fact, as soon as you tell me I have to do something - give a speech, attend a banquet, go to Cannes - I immediately start looking for ways to avoid doing it.
Brian Grazer / Film Producer
Cannes
Human Nature
Attend
Banquet
Immediately
Ordered
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A producer is supposed to generate an idea for a movie. And then they're supposed to create the team, the group of people that are gonna make this movie. And within that team, the producer has to have a creative vision and a fiscal vision, and they have to adhere to both things.
Brian Grazer / Film Producer
Movie
Creative
Team
Vision
Within
Adhere
Fiscal
Generate
Group
Producer
Supposed
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I've been in, like, kids' clubs... I've been in the Boom Boom Room in New York, and the kids are going, 'Oh my God, you produced 'Arrested Development?'' They aren't talking about 'A Beautiful Mind' or '24.' It's like the only thing in my whole career was 'Arrested Development,' literally.
Brian Grazer / Film Producer
Arrested
Clubs
Arrested Development
Boom
Oh My God
Produced
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I like learning stuff. The more information you can get about a person or a subject, the more you can pour into a potential project. I made a decision to do different things. I want to do things that have a better chance of being thought of as original. I do everything I can to disrupt my comfort zone.
Brian Grazer / Film Producer
Comfort
Comfort Zone
Decision
Different
Different Things
Zone
Better Chance
Original
Disrupt
Project
Pour
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We're interested in complex characters and he's a complex character, [J. Edgar] Hoover. I like these types of dramas. I've made a few of them and I'm also interested in power structures so it just has elements that fascinate me, and the more you learn about Hoover, the more polarizing you realize he is.
Brian Grazer / Film Producer
Character
Drama
Elements
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I went to USC. I wasn't a rich kid or anything like that, so I had to get a scholarship. Went to USC; my first year, I took 26 units, so I got to have a nickname. Everyone goes, 'There's 26.' So I had a nickname. Having a nickname is a good thing because then you start to get popular, and you keep that going.
Brian Grazer / Film Producer
Scholarship
Units
Good Thing
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Being interested in other fields and meeting experts outside entertainment - whether it's a two-hour conversation with John Nash that turns into 'A Beautiful Mind' or talking to people in architecture or fashion, CIA directors or Nobel laureates - has given me a better sense of which ideas feel authentic and new.
Brian Grazer / Film Producer
Architecture
Cia
Experts
Fields
Nobel
Turns
Authentic
Laureate
Meeting
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