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Quotes About Production

I thought it was getting better and better, because the production values were increasing each time we did it.
~ Derek Jacobi
Making movies is time-consuming and it's boring. You spend most of your time waiting between takes. It's like a big machine that moves slowly.
~ Eddie Murphy
Capital creates space-time.
~ David Harvey
For the first time in the history of photography, we can study the real-time production of snapshot making - globally! (On Flickr and other photosharing websites)
~ Joachim Schmid
A horrible script 99 percent of the time means a horrible movie. But if you start with a good script, odds are you're going to have a good movie.
~ Ricky Schroder
Every time I make a movie I have too many characters and too many locations.
~ Rob Zombie
In a world where routine production is footloose...competitive advantage lies not in one-time breakthroughs but in continual improvements. Stable technologies get away.
~ Robert Reich
I had the most fantastic time filming 'Downton.'
~ Rose Leslie
I hate movies that take a long time to shoot or directors that labor over every shot or do excessive amounts of coverage and excessive takes and don't keep things moving or constantly cutting.
~ Stanley Tucci
Nobody in Hollywood ever sets out to make a bad movie ever but about 99% of the time, that's what happens.
~ Thomas Lennon
I think there are certain technical things about acting that change between working in film and television. Everything definitely slows down and we have more time in film.
~ Thomas McDonell
[Television] is a great medium for writers, because there's just no time for a studio to interfere very long. You write it, you shoot it; it's on TV.
~ Tina Fey
It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff.
~ Vince Gill
Over in Hollywood they almost made a great picture, but they caught it in time.
~ Wilson Mizner
I have Pro Tools on my computer, and I make CDs all the time.
~ Zooey Deschanel
On an independent film, you really learn about pace. You have so little time to do things, that you really have to know your scenes.
~ Juno Temple
The funny thing about television is that once you start to do it you never get time to watch it.
~ Kevin Sorbo
You're not really just a filmmaker that makes a movie good most of the time. It's everybody involved; it's a collective effort.
~ Logan Lerman
The wonderful thing about film is that you have something that has a beginning, middle, and end, and you have a concrete amount of time to shoot it.
~ Lucy Liu
With animation, if something does not fit, you always have the time to change it. When you make a live-action movie, when your days of shooting are over, they are over forever.
~ Marjane Satrapi
First, creating moving-image particles using MoCap technology requires a very complex and long production pipeline. Moreover, rendering these particles takes a lengthy amount of time.
~ Martine Epoque
When you're fast when you're shooting, there are great things that you discover. By being fast you also sometimes get more time to experiment.
~ Michael Bay
Studios are an assembly line. They can be a very good assembly line. As a producer, you concentrate on one project at a time. As an executive, you're in charge of a slate.
~ Michael De Luca
There's a lot that you can do in television that you can't do with a film, theoretically. At the time, the only possibility was to do a movie.
~ Mitchell Hurwitz