Tiya Sircar Quotes

I suppose I was always attracted to the producing function - trying to put things together and make things happen.

I always feel that the best kind of producing - and frankly, it has to do with what I like to do - is you're the big-picture person.

I've been in charge all my damn life, but executive producing is teamwork. You're involved with every aspect of the production, from casting to locations, everything.

Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.

I got to do Disney Sunday movies. I got to do a TV pilot there. And it really helped me to realise that I needed to not just be a writer, but a producer, to see my work up on the screen the way I wanted it to look and play.

As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers.

I think the toughest thing is to describe what a producer does because they basically do everything. They follow a project from the start through the rest of its life and, along the way, are a part of every single aspect of its growth. It's tremendously enriching, though, because you get to know and live with the movie in its entirety.

I put projects together. I put people together.

As a producer, you're there from the inception of the concept to the delivery of it. It just takes so much energy.

I know that producing will ultimately mean more longevity in the business, so when I'm tired of everything else and want to be behind the cameras, I know that I can produce.

I want to direct but I think I'd be bloody awful and I don't want to produce but I think I'd be a very good producer because if I believed in something I'd be able to protect it.

I make almost all the decisions on set and have to deal with all the financial aspects.

I've been on a lot of sets, and I've been around a lot of directors, and I've been working for many years now, but stepping in the shoes of being the decision maker and the guy that everybody is relying on at some point, yeah, it was challenging for sure. One thing is that you're responsible for a large group of people.

In management terms, directing opera certainly prepares you for a film set: the magnitude of it, the experts in other fields that you have to call on. Both are massive ensemble jobs in which there's incredible pressure to get things done on time and on budget - so much so that making the wrong decision may be better than making no decision at all.

Being a producer is more than a 24 hour job.

The leadership qualities that you have to have to be a producer on a film is something I learned being a captain on the team.

I don't have the temperament of being a director.

It's not a 'sexy' position, being the producer. You have to be very bossy. You have to be very aggressive.

I make it happen. Who bought Alex Haley's book 'Roots' for TV? Me. I hired the director, hired the writer. I put them all together. I'm like the chef. If I mix all the ingredients right, it's going to taste terrific. If I don't, it's not going to come out good.

I like to be the captain of my ship and be involved with everything from stage production, merch, art, and rollouts.

I'm a very hands-on producer.

I prefer directing to producing as it is far more satisfying.

When I began to direct, I discovered that I was much more comfortable than I was acting.

I think there is more cohesion when you have one director on set.

I would say it's not as hard as writing, because when you're a writer, you walk right into the pit all by yourself, but when you're a director, there are at least 80 people who scream, 'Don't do that!' when you make a mistake.