Mr. McCracken says he did not quit to make a statement.
In 2001, he quit to make a career of antique fabrics.
"I'm the guy who was raising money in Republican districts to get you here," he said, adding that he would not quit to make some colleagues comfortable.
Instead of heading to the White House, the traditional track for producers when the candidates they are covering win, she quit to make "Journeys With George".
Mr. Eckrodt, 61, a former Daimler executive, decided to quit "to make way for a new team," he said in a statement.
He felt he had begun to grow as a director only when he quit to make socially conscious melodramas for Mark Hellinger ("The Naked City") and Darryl F. Zanuck ("Thieves Highway").
But in Korhogo, the main town in the predominantly Muslim north, Messamba Kone, the rebel leader, said the insurgents had ruled out a cease-fire and wanted Mr. Gbagbo to quit to make way for a transitional government.
After he quit to make Underdog, Biggers wrote a first novel (The Man Inside).
In 1979 Patterson, then the breadwinner for a growing family, quit to make good on their idea, calling the company PGI & Associates.
And even as he announced his decision to quit, to make way, he said, for a new generation of leaders, there were hints that we had not seen the last of him.
