Nick Denton Quotes

I love producing. My dream as a producer is to be able to build a company that can be a safe haven for artists, for directors and for writers and actors to do what they do best and let them have final edit. I'd like to build something to that effect.

Everyone feels a sense of ownership in creating a Lynn Shelton movie. Lynn chooses amazing people - including the crew. Every person there is committed to making the film the best it can be.

I love working with directors who have good taste. It's incredible when a director can say something and things open up for you. I went to The University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and some of my best experiences on sets have been working with other alums.

My favorite thing about this business is you're just jammed in a room on a set with like-minded people - writers, directors, and art designers and hairdressers. People who didn't work a 9-to-5 but chose this life. You're going to like at least two or three people in that you love these people so much.

There are certainly producers I hang with and directors I hang with and actors I hang with.

I only want to work with interesting filmmakers.

I always wanted a family environment, a community where a creator like myself could connect and vibe with other creators without feeling competitive.

People look down on it, but I love the community of horror. Writers and directors are a tight group of people, and we help and support each other.

My hope is always to be able to find well-written, interesting material with good people and then actually be able to get those jobs.

In the future, the idea would be to create work for myself, as a way to work up into my 80s if nothing else. But also, I want to cast my friends in things or people I saw who weren't working and I'd be like, 'Why aren't you working, I don't understand - I'll write you a role in something.'

I'm drawn to talented, creative people who often just don't know how to support themselves - they're more focused on their work than trying to figure that out. So I commission a lot of works with artists who I like personally or professionally, and through that process, I wound up collecting a lot of art.

I have always wanted to have a cultural centre where people can sort of have a community of artists and like-minded people sharing their work.

I think the artist community is very tight-knit.

If there's a new HBO series, you know there's going to be a certain level of storytelling mastery - that you can trust it.

I need to help people to create the best work that they can. It's just something a producer should do anyway.

For the last 10 years, I've been working with Donald Glover and Ryan Coogler, and we've put down so much time really trying to make the best that we can, whether it's a movie, a film score, or a song.

I always tell people, when they ask me what to do to be a writer or to be a performer, the key is to go to a place where there are a lot of other people who are trying to do the same thing as you and taking it very seriously.

When artists find other artists that they love to work with, they more than likely will continue to work with them throughout their career.

Chicago's music scene is very inspiring. I like to think of it as a small community of friends who enjoy creating and inspiring each other.

I'm interested in working with great people and exploring great themes in different mediums.

If you get to participate with a group of artists and make something that's really truthful, that's about the highest you can go, in my opinion.

I learned a lot while I was ACing and gripping for other DPs as I was coming up.

I always try to pick projects by: Is this something that excites me? What are the people like to work with? Obviously you spend a lot of time in a room together with them, so I always try to find projects that hopefully have great people attached.

I'm thrilled to join the talented people at 'The Daily Line' and look forward to being a part of Versus' incredible team.

In the G.O.O.D. Music camp, we all come around, and we show ourselves and present ourselves as artists only.