Quotes About Production

I don't feel isolated on a film set. In a way you do because you don't really mix with the outside world; you're just sort of working non-stop for a few months, but you've got so many people around you.

Whenever you do a film, it's always like a little miracle. So many people getting together trying to do something so that the audience can be entertained.

There's so many people involved in making a film.

Making films is such a large, collaborative effort and there's so many people who are a part of it.

A show is like it's own thing... it's a creation from so many people's talent and so much energy.

Ford Fairlane was one of those movies that was so much fun to make that it was bound not to be a big hit.

Though they won't say, it has been estimated that Cargill and ADM together probably buy somewhere near a third of all the corn grown in America.

By far the biggest portion of a bushel of American commodity corn (about 60% of it, or some 50k kernels) goes to feeding livestock, and much of that goes to feeding America's 100 million beef cattle

The ratio of feed to flesh in chicken, the most efficient animal by this measure, is two pounds of corn to one of meat, which is why chicken costs less than beef.

Instead of man being the aim of production, production is the aim of man and wealth the aim of production, instead of tools and the productive mechanism in general liberating man from the slavery of toil, man has become the slave of tools and the industry has become synonymous with business and people have been duped into asking, "what's good for business?" instead of, "what is business good for?

Before ISIS controlled eastern Syria, an oil well produced around thirty thousand barrels per day, and each barrel sold for two thousand Syrian pounds—eleven dollars at the current exchange rate. Local families that worked in refineries would make two hundred liras (a little more than one dollar) on each barrel they refined primitively. After ISIS took over, a barrel of oil became cheaper because it fixed the price

We must cease once and for all to describe the effects of power in negative terms, it 'excludes', it 'represses'... in fact power produces, it produces reality, it produces domains of objects and rituals of truth.

Censura respecto al sexo? Más bien se ha construido un artefacto para producir discursos sobre el sexo, siempre más discursos, susceptibles de funcionar y de surtir efecto en su economía misma.

Thumbelina, along with her brothers and sisters, is now producing, like a choir, a background noise that drowns out the voice of writing.

Blue Origin has produced its own rocket system, called New Shepard (named after Alan Shepard, the first American to go into space via a suborbital rocket).

Un flujo pieza a pieza al menor coste posible.» Tal como hemos visto en el capítulo 3, esta visión no procede de Toyota ni de Japón, y ya ha sido perseguida desde hace unos cuantos cientos de años. ¿Por qué no adoptar esta visión de la producción ampliamente reconocida y ponerse en marcha?

Figura 5.11. La pauta heijunka como estado objetivo. Heijunka es una de las técnicas más importante del arsenal de herramientas de Toyota, y un estado target u objetivo especialmente útil porque el esfuerzo por alcanzarlo arroja luz sobre muchos elementos del proceso de montaje y el flujo de valor asociado. Una vez que hayamos entendido que heijunka, o nivelación, no es un corsé, sino un estado objetivo, podremos cosechar mejor los beneficios de haber ido tras el mismo.

La cultura sucumbe bajo el volumen de la producción, la avalancha de letras, la locura de la cantidad. Por ese motivo te digo que un libro prohibido en tu país significa infinitamente más que los millones de palabras que vomitan nuestras universidades.

A cultura desaparece numa multidão de produções, numa avalanche de frases, na demência da quantidade.

These people live in many lands, speak different languages, practice different religions, may even hate one another- yet none of these differences prevented them from cooperating to produce a pencil. How did it happen? Adam Smith gave us the answer two hundred years ago.

Big productions, to me, are great - like, I love going to Vegas and seeing shows - but I think that sometimes it's distracting, especially when you are there to listen to the music.

I love how you can shoot a movie in a month or two or three of four, and it's this encapsulated story that you box up and ship out into the world, and what it is, is what it is.

I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'

I have produced all my music videos. Love to get behind the camera and get involved in the editing process.