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I like challenges; I like excitement. I like entering different worlds and trying to succeed - not excel, but succeed.

~Brian Grazer

Topics: Challenges Different Entering Excel Excitement Like Succeed Trying Worlds

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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

Topics: Adhere Both Create Creative Fiscal Generate Gonna Group Idea Make Movie People Producer Supposed Team Then Things Vision Within

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You can get good at finding access in the entertainment business. But the ideas, the narratives themselves, they are the only things that are going to be of any value.

~Brian Grazer

Topics: Access Any Business Entertainment Entertainment Business Finding Get Going Good Ideas Narratives Only Themselves Things Value You

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Artists, whether they're Tom Cruise or John Waters or Ron Howard or Oliver Stone, you can empower them to become a better version of themselves, but you cannot change them 180 degrees to be someone they are not.

~Brian Grazer

Topics: Artists Become Better Cannot Change Cruise Degrees Empower John Oliver Ron Someone Stone Them Themselves Tom Tom Cruise Version Waters Whether You

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I don't like to boss people around. I don't get motivated by telling people what to do, I don't take any pleasure in it. So I manage with curiosity, by asking questions.

~Brian Grazer

Topics: Any Around Asking Asking Questions Boss Curiosity Get Like Manage Motivated People Pleasure Questions Take Telling

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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

Topics: Attend Avoid Banquet Cannes Choose Doing Fact Give Go Human Human Nature Immediately In Fact Looking Me Nature Ordered People Prefer Quality Rather Simple Something Soon Speech Start Tell Than Them Things Ways You

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Asking for people's help - rather than directing it - is almost always the smart way of doing things, regardless of the stakes.

~Brian Grazer

Topics: Almost Always Asking Directing Doing Help People Rather Regardless Smart Stakes Than Things Way

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The hair is part of my image, part of my persona. And the hair is no accident: I have to gel it vertical every single morning.

~Brian Grazer

Topics: Accident Every Gel Hair Image Morning Part Persona Single Vertical

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Hollywood is a land of style, a world where how you present yourself matters. Many of the people working here are so dramatically good-looking - that is their style. That's not me, and I know that.

~Brian Grazer

Topics: Dramatically Good-Looking Here Hollywood How Know Land Many Matters Me People Present Style Where Working World You Yourself

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I worked for a couple of screamers in my early days in Hollywood. I don't like being screamed at, and I am not myself a screamer.

~Brian Grazer

Topics: Am Being Couple Days Early Early Days Hollywood Like Myself Screamed Worked I Am

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Producer

Born: July 12th, 1951

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