Quotes by Marshall Herskovitz - Page 1

Producers are now employees, not creators.
Marshall Herskovitz / Film Director
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Employee
Producers
Creators
Employees
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The pilot system in television is utterly broken. It's a huge waste of money.
Marshall Herskovitz / Film Director
Broken
Pilots
Television
Waste
Pilot
Utterly
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The producer is at the center of entertainment. The producer is being forgotten, and producers must seize the center of activity.
Marshall Herskovitz / Film Director
Entertainment
Forgotten
Producers
Center
Producer
Seize
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Our founding fathers could not have foreseen that freedom of the press might eventually be threatened just as much by media consolidation as by government.
Marshall Herskovitz / Film Director
Consolidation
Foreseen
Founding
Threatened
Fathers
Founding Fathers
Just As Much
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The further I've gotten into the Internet, the more I've become convinced that we've explored only a tiny corner of what it can mean and what we can feel there.
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Tiny
Corner
Explored
Further
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The world is filled with terrible things that can influence children, and movies have depicted them since time immemorial. Should every terrible thing warrant an R-rating?
Marshall Herskovitz / Film Director
Children
Filled
Influence
World
Time Movies World
Depicted
Immemorial
Terrible Thing
Warrant
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One of the reasons the producers' credit has been so weakened in recent years, and given to people who didn't deserve it, was that people didn't understand what producers did.
Marshall Herskovitz / Film Director
People
Producers
Reason
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Hey, if I had my choice for social engineering, I'd declare an automatic R-rating for any movie that depicts television commercials. There's a truly dangerous influence on our children.
Marshall Herskovitz / Film Director
Children
Engineering
Hey
Social Engineering
Television Commercials
Automatic
Commercials
Declare
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Even those who don't believe in climate change believe we should develop renewable energy. Americans get it: it's time. This is not controversial. It's actually right in the wheelhouse of American business.
Marshall Herskovitz / Film Director
Believe
Climate
Climate Change
Controversial
Energy
Renewable Energy
Change Time Business
Renewable
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For reasons we don't have to get into, climate change has become an incredibly polarized issue in the United States. I think that is sad. My own personal view is that we're in a planetary emergency such has not been seen in 600,000 years.
Marshall Herskovitz / Film Director
Climate Change
Emergency
Planetary
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If there is a public perception at all, they see the producer as a big old guy who smokes a cigar and has lots of money and lots of power. That's not what a producer is and, if it ever was what a producer was, it certainly hasn't been for a long time.
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Perception
Time Power Money
Producer
Old Guy
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After I graduated from Brandeis, I took all the money I had in the world, which was $5,000, and I made a short film. I made every mistake you could possibly make. It was a total disaster as a piece of work, and yet, you know, it was ambitious in some way.
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Ambitious
Disaster
Mistake
Work Money World
Graduated
Possibly
Short Film
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The vast majority of our film producers are independent producers who live hand to mouth trying to get projects made that they love. They are not owners, they're not money people, and in fact, those who just have the money don't always get a producer credit.
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Independent
People
Trying
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It's very hard to make a living as a producer these days. The reality of the business is the studios have cut way back on overall deals for producers and cut way back on development. The fee for developing a project has not changed for 20 years, and a producer can't live on it.
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Changed
Cutting
Reality
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Even the most brilliant accomplishments on the Internet are essentially cold. Google has changed the world, but you don't snuggle up to it. YouTube is a giant carnival, filled with freaks and mountebanks, a place to gawk and laugh and get bored. Certainly not a place to feel anything.
Marshall Herskovitz / Film Director
Bored
Brilliant
Cold
Filled
Youtube
Accomplishments
Carnival
Freaks
Giant
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Remember: the ratings system is a voluntary infringement of First Amendment rights, an uneasy bargain between the needs of parents, the needs of artists, and the needs of large media corporations to make profits. Any time we chip away at the First Amendment, we should at least do it with some reverence.
Marshall Herskovitz / Film Director
Corporations
First Amendment
First Amendment Rights
Media
Reverence
Rights
Uneasy
Time Remember Parents
Amendment
Amendment Rights
Artists
Bargain
Chip
Large
Profits
Ratings
Voluntary
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The notion that moving toward renewable energy will kill jobs is an absurdity on its face. The notion that we have to live smaller lifestyles; not have the American way of life or give up the American Dream is just ridiculous. It is the opposite of the case; a new energy paradigm will create opportunity.
Marshall Herskovitz / Film Director
Absurdity
American Dream
Notion
Paradigm
Renewable Energy
Ridiculous
Opposite
Lifestyles
Renewable
Smaller
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OK, I have to admit that I go on TheSuperficial.com. That guy is so funny, he's just so funny... you know, I'm a news junkie, so I regularly flip between HuffingtonPost.com, CNN.com, and a site that's called MyWay.com, which shows me six different news feeds. And I go on DrudgeReport.com about once a day.
Marshall Herskovitz / Film Director
Flip
News
Site
Admit
Funny Me Day
Feeds
Regularly
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In my personal belief, the big problem with climate change is getting people to understand the magnitude and scale that we're dealing with. If you buy a vehicle that gets 35 miles to the gallon, that means nothing; it's not enough. We need to make changes across society and in every piece of the energy pie.
Marshall Herskovitz / Film Director
Climate Change
Magnitude
Miles
Pie
Vehicle
Scale
Big Problem
Dealing
Gallon
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Hollywood is the perfect conduit for the urgent message about climate change. We raise awareness all the time. We routinely take a film that nobody knows about and get 80 percent of the public to know about it in just 30 days. That's called marketing. We need to harvest Hollywood for climate change awareness.
Marshall Herskovitz / Film Director
Climate Change
Harvest
Marketing
Urgent
Conduit
Raise
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It's interesting: I went 25 years without watching a single television show. I was one of those people, because I was so inside how a television show was made, if I would turn on somebody else's show, I would sit there and analyze it, like, 'Oh, so they had four hours in this location and had to get out and the number of set-ups, etc.'
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Etc
Location
Analyze
Television Show
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I would say the producer is the person who is there from the beginning to the end of the project. Either the person who creates, generates, or discovers the project, the person who performs many of the functions that are necessary to getting that project to the point where it is financed and then where it is in production, finished, marketed and released.
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You always have to remember in this business that the public doesn't care about us. It's very important to keep that in mind. If there is a public perception at all, they see the producer as a big old guy who smokes a cigar and has lots of money and lots of power. That's not what a producer is and, if it ever was what a producer was, it certainly hasn't been for a long time.
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Guy
Long
Mind
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Our business,The Producers Guild, has a good record in some areas, and a bad record in others. There are many well-intentioned people trying to change things. The Producers Guild has been committed to this for years now, and I think personally does more than any other guild to give opportunities to people who come from outside of, I guess you'd call it, the expected avenues for advancement.
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Opportunity
People
Thinking
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