Quotes About Production

I've never tried to make a movie to pay an overhead. We're in a very creative business, and I want to make movies because I enjoy that movie or that material.

If enough people out there want a physical product, I'll be happy to make one. I'd say about 10,000 people is "enough."

The major studios are by and large banks, and they give you what is by and large a loan to make a movie. Like banks, they want their money back plus.

The Chinese do make vast quantities of wine for home consumption, but you wouldn't want to drink it yourself.

I usually enter the studio with a mix of songs that I've been listening to that are relevant to the sound I want to achieve.

The deal is that you can do it, you don't really owe me anything, but at the end of it, I own the film. Then I can actually go out and reprint or not reprint if it I want.

There's only one way to prep, so far as I know. You have your script, you hire the people you want, you find your locations and your setups, everybody shows up and you shoot the film.

Profits are part of the mechanism by which society decides what it wants to see produced.

People are working hard in the USA to make things. And I want to help them do it even more.

The wants of mankind are supplied and satisfied out of the gross values produced and created, and not out of the net values only.

We do not manufacture wants for goods we do not produce.

It's too expensive, that's the thing nobody wants to talk about. It is too expensive to make movies. That's not true, it is too expensive to market movies. Making movies is not.

Eventually one day I want to direct, but as of right now my next cap that I'm looking for is the producer cap.

I grew up in the indie world and that's what I'm used to, but there's something really incredible about having money behind a film and having the time to do as many takes as you want.

China is investing in factories in Eastern Europe, not because their labor costs are lower, but because they want to be closer to their markets.

I watch 'Sons of Anarchy' and 'Game of Thrones' and 'The Walking Dead' and think, 'I want to create that kind of television!

I've been walking to school and trying to figure out what's going on there; some of the production and songs are so ridiculous. I want to get inside that.

The Stones are not the kind of band that want to get in the details. That's why they have a producer and engineer - to pull the magic out of them and make them sound so great.

After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the output of industry and agriculture dispersed and consumed.

The ability to produce every necessity of life renders us independent in war as well as in peace.

War may achieve a redistribution of resources, but labor, not war, creates wealth.

Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.

I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.

The film industry began in 1910 with the production of D. W. Griffith's movie In Old California and grew by bounds.