Quotes About Production

If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly.

Both TV and movies seem to be produced in a more similar way as time goes on. It used to be that movies were much bigger productions on every level and took much longer to shoot. I liked that. But with the advent of digital, everything can be done much quicker and cheaper, and that seems to be the goal of most movies and TV these days.

In television, you make an hour-long episode every seven days; we used to make 'Party Down' in four days per episode. It's quick and with independent movies is the same: you gotta keep moving. It's very similar.

There are a lot of similarities with film and TV, but also a lot of differences, especially in the way they film stuff.

It's such a complicated thing to put a movie together. The book world is so much simpler.

I saw a production of 'Titus Andronicus' at the Royal Shakespeare Company with Brian Cox back in 1987. That sort of rocked my world. It was a remarkable production in its simplicity and its realism and passion.

Films and music videos, like other media works, are machines for generating affect, and for capitalizing upon, or extracting value from, this affect. As such, they are not ideological superstructures, as an older sort of Marxist criticism would have it. Rather, they lie at the very heart of social production, circulation, and distribution. They generate subjectivity, and they play a crucial role in the valorization of capital.

Capitalism has to transform plenitude into scarcity, because it cannot endure its own abundance.

Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production.

As late as 1820, families made three quarters of all goods—food, clothing, tools—for their own use.

Emerge la clase dirigente que, inevitablemente, se convertirá en parásito de la productora (así ha funcionado el mundo desde entonces).

Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

One cannot find a healthy economy anywhere in the world that does not have a strong industrial base, period.

The U.S. is becoming an industrial heartland again.

The rumours of the demise of the U.S. manufacturing industry are greatly exaggerated.

If you can make a lot more of something, you can make it much more inexpensive.

Because I direct films, I have to live in a major English-speaking production center. That narrows it down to three places: Los Angeles, New York and London. I like New York, but it's inferior to London as a production center. Hollywood is best, but I don't like living there.

The way I work is by infinitely playing a very simple loop over and over, and then I start layering things.

In the hands of food manufacturers, cheese has become an 'ingredient.'

All movies are inherently collaborative, and animation even more so. There are hundreds and hundreds of people involved with an animated movie.

To me, the screenplay only becomes the Bible of the film after the actors have been cast. You go over the initial script with them and listen to the way they talk. Then you try to do a rewrite to accommodate them.

'3' was initially not a feature film but a short movie.

Innovation usually arises from somebody taking a product already in production and making it better: better glass, better aluminum, a better chip. Innovation always starts with a product.

I go by my instinct in selecting scripts for my banner. Some times it works and some times it does not.