Adam Leipzig Quotes

United States, Film Producer
March 29, 1958

Adam Leipzig is the CEO of Entertainment Media Partners, an American film and theatre producer, film executive and author. As a former Disney Executive, he supervised such films as Dead Poets Society (1989) and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989). He went on to produce such films as Titus (1999), The Way Back (2010) and A Plastic Ocean (2017). While president of National Geographic Films, he acquired the international rights to March of the Penguins and created the US version. He is the author of two books on filmmaking, both published by imprints of Macmillan, and the publisher of the online arts magazine Cultural Weekly.

Also known as Film Executive , Radio Producer, Author

Frightening for many artists is promoting themselves. They feel it is... artificial and not what we want to be known for. Yet if we start thinking about what we do as important and important to offer to people, not to sell... it allows us to shift the way we think about promoting ourselves.

Adam Leipzig
- Way
- Shift
- Promoting
The one word you should forget when you start a new project is the word 'I' - you need to replace that word 'I' with the idea of 'everybody else.'

Adam Leipzig
- New
- Word
- Project

The one thing that cannot be outsourced is creativity. We have to find ways to support creative people because the only way we are going to improve our laws... is by creating our way out of it.

Adam Leipzig
- Way
- Creativity
- Laws
We can all agree that the unexamined life is not worth living, but if all you're doing is examining, you're not living.

Adam Leipzig
- Life
- Living
- Examining
Artists don't like the business side. None of us were born understanding money. We all had to learn how to do it. So it's just something creative people need to get familiar with... not really so scary.

Adam Leipzig
You can shoot and edit a movie from your iPhone and upload it to YouTube. Of course, what's not universal is talent. Are you making anything that anyone really should see?

Adam Leipzig
- Movie
- See
- YouTube
In order to be artists we need to be in our studios, in our private rooms... in our private personal space... that sacred protected space, so we can make our work. That's the only work that's worth making, right? That's the place where we can be free enough and vulnerable enough to share what we have to share.

Adam Leipzig
- Work
- Space
- Artists
At a certain point you have to make a decision in your life about where will you best serve, and I decided that I would best serve as a producer as opposed to a studio executive. There are many upsides to being the studio executive, but one of the downsides is that you get removed from the actual process of making the movie.

Adam Leipzig
- Movie
- Decision
- Process

When we are in our studios, in our private space... we need to block out the outside world; we need to disbelieve anything that would doubt us, because - everyone will doubt us if we allow them that space.

Adam Leipzig
- Space
- Block
- Outside