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Quotes About Production

Every time we consume meat, eggs or dairy foods, we contribute to ecological devastation and the wasteful misuse of resources on a global scale.
~ Ingrid Newkirk
The problem is that every time people have deviated from the Disney playbook in hand-drawn animation, they've done so with staff that are nowhere near Disney-level talent or Disney-level budgets.
~ Brad Bird
The difference between a movie and a play is that the production you end up with is the production. If a movie that I spent time on turns out to be crap, it's never going to be made again.
~ Charlie Kaufman
Fights take a long time to shoot.
~ Greg Bryk
After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get out a new book by him each year.
~ Robert Benchley
Indies are always an extra challenge. The time is shorter because you have less money to spend and fewer days to shoot.
~ Salli Richardson
My time on the set is the least of my involvement. Most of my time is in pre-production and post-production.
~ Charlie Kaufman
Stratton, of course, had the advantage: Olive knew he controlled the book's production and understood that too much sympathy for the devil would reflect badly on her, reducing her chances of "resuming her position in society," as the Daily Alta had put it. Olive was again a captive—this time of her ghostwriter.
~ Margot Mifflin
Venice manipulated markets by controlling production. In the late thirteenth century, wishing to raise the world market price, Venice had all saltworks in Crete destroyed and banned the local production of salt.
~ Mark Kurlansky
The finished paper is still 5 percent water.
~ Mark Kurlansky
Cows are the leading source of hamburger meat in America. Dairy cows are very lean because they put everything into producing milk, so they make good lean ground meat.
~ Mark Kurlansky
But as soon as paper started to be made from trees, concern shifted to the destruction of the forests.
~ Mark Kurlansky
I don't write lovely music." He was willing, however, to compose the score for the MGM production of The Good Earth. His demands were appropriate but unacceptable. He wanted fifty thousand dollars, and complete control of the soundtrack; the actors were to speak in the same pitch and key he composed in (as if Paul Muni and Luise Rainer didn't have enough difficulty playing Chinese peasants!).
~ Anthony Heilbut
Today 2% of the US population work in farming and agriculture, and we feed the entire world.
~ Anthony Robbins
the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet.
~ Aristotle
Shepherds say too that it makes a difference to the production of females and the production of males not only if mating occurs during north winds or south winds, but |767a10| also if while copulating the animals look south or north. So small a thing, they say, will sometimes shift the balance, becoming a cause of cold or heat, and these a cause in generation.
~ Aristotle
This had not endeared him to exobiologists such as Dr Perera, who took exactly the opposite view. To them, the only purpose of the Universe was the production of intelligence, and they were apt to talk sneeringly about purely astronomical phenomena, 'Mere dead matter' was one of their favourite phrases.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Üretim büyük ölçüde otomatikleÅŸmiÅŸti. Robotlar?n iÅŸlettiÄŸi fabrikalar ard? arkas? kesilmeyen tüketim mallar? üretiyordu; böylece yaÅŸam için gereken her ÅŸey neredeyse bedava olmuÅŸtu. İnsanlar art?k istedikleri lükslere sahip olabilmek için çal???yordu. Ya da hiç çal??m?yordu.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
É pela convergência destes dois factores - participação na produção e libertação da escravatura da reprodução - que se explica a evolução da condição da mulher.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Aucune maison étrangère n'est si étrangère que cette usine où on dépense quotidiennement ses forces pendant huit heures.
~ Simone Weil
I shall not be content till this country can produce every single thing we need, even coffee, cocoa, and rubber, and so keep all our dollars at home. If
~ Sinclair Lewis
This play, it is generally agreed, was produced before and fairly close to the year 441 B.C.
~ Sophocles
Any actor, any playwright who's worked a life in the theater knows how to do things cheaply and quickly. It's just all by necessity. Invention is everything.
~ Israel Horovitz
British car strikes reduce production of Austin Allegros and Morris Marinas. Rest of world copes.
~ John O'Farrell