Quotes About Production

Still, the film nearly didn't happen a number of times. There were great arguments with United Artists about how to reduce the cost because they were nothing if not conscious of the price of the film.

When you're doing the work, film and TV are exactly the same. TV is just film in reduced pieces.

First and foremost, energy efficiency is a major lever for reducing CO2 emissions along all parts of the energy chain - from the production of resources all the way to final consumption.

There is a reason why conservatives talk about 'government' and not 'self-government,' because to refer to the latter is to concede that 'the government' is really the most basic product of our political commonwealth, that it is what we produce among ourselves so as to order the production of everything else that we do together.

Amazon may be the only studio that's run by people who come out of making independent movies, real hands-on moviemaking.

TV is a hard thing to do. It's a hard thing to get a show.

I did love 'What's Up?' but I hated the production.

I have fun while shooting the film, and after that I am done.

Now it really is, believe it or not, 90% of the films are green lit, not by the studio heads, but by the marketing department.

Casting is what I put at the top of the heap in importance to any show that I do.

I've never heard of a comedy that hasn't had reshoots, especially for the ending of a movie in a comedy.

I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.

You couldn't make 'Heaven's Gate' today. Even were you to quadruple the resources to make the movie, you couldn't make it because the people don't exist.

Climax shoot for 'Dabangg3' has been very hectic yet a great experience.

I have enjoyed acting, but getting into production is hectic. I am not made for it.

One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

For a director, a musical is a special kind of hell.

When you make your first film, there is a hell of a lot to think about, and you've got to have a gut understanding of your material.

I'm here to put on a show.

It does cost a lot of money to make high-quality TV in exotic locations. I know everyone thinks we've been given a massive sack full of money and gone off and bought Lamborghinis and gone off for lunch, but it isn't actually like that.

If there's something decent going in television, the mediums now are kind of equal. Television has become much higher quality.

Film is the most expensive, highest risk industry in the world.

It is basic truth. Workers are profit creators

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself.