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Quotes About Production

I've always been interested in making movies.
~ Lance Bass
I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved.
~ Catherine Deneuve
What are works of art for? to educate, to be standards. To produce is of little use unless what we produce is known, is widely known, the wider known the better, for it is by being known that it works, it influences, it does its duty, it does good. We must try, then, to be known, aim at it, take means to it. And this without puffing in the process or pride in the success.
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
And the buying of new machinery meant not only the possibility of production, but even the new technology, 'cos as I mentioned before, we were back of seven, eight years.
~ Gianni Agnelli
All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been stable and so we were infinitely behind whatever had been going on in the United States for instance.
~ Gianni Agnelli
D.H. Lawrence had the impression – that psychoanalysis was shutting sexuality up in a bizarre sort of box painted with bourgeois motifs, in a kind of rather repugnant artificial triangle, thereby stifling the whole of sexuality as a production of desire so as to recast it along entirely different lines, making of it a 'dirty little secret', a dirty little family secret, a private theater rather than the fantastic factory of nature and production
~ Gilles Deleuze
knows exactly how serious this threat could be. Nevertheless, we cannot afford to take a chance with the health of our nation." With that preamble, Ford announced that he was asking Congress to appropriate $135 million "for the production of sufficient vaccine to inoculate every man, woman, and child in the United States," for a disease that no one could even prove to exist.
~ Gina Kolata
I'm not happy to face it," he added, "but in the context of my life then, these workers' only significance was what they could produce towards our war effort; I didn't see or think of them as human beings, as individuals.
~ Gitta Sereny
Now having said that, I realize that releasing a film in the real world is like trying to get General Motors to release a handmade car.
~ Godfrey Reggio
China-centric globalization is characterized by three features: (1) The emergence of China as the global center of manufacturing—the so-called "factory for the world"; (2) The creation of a new dollar zone shared by the U.S. and China, and supported by China's adoption of a pegged dollar exchange rate; and (3) The emergence of a massive U.S. trade deficit with China, combined with the transfer of a significant chunk of U.S. manufacturing capacity there.
~ Gordon Chang
it will not be long before the Chinese brew more beer than anyone else. China's just a shade behind the United States, and its output has been growing a staggering 25 percent a year for the last decade, the fastest in the world.
~ Gordon G. Chang
In face of the facts that modern man lives more wretchedly than the cave-man, and that his producing power is a thousand times greater than that of the cave-man, no other conclusion is possible than that the capitalist class has mismanaged, that you have mismanaged, my masters, that you have criminally and selfishly mismanaged.
~ Jack London
War for the nomadic people was a sort of production.
~ Jack Weatherford
natural state for human beings. We need to explore. We're curious. We want to adapt constantly to new environments and use the part of our brain that evolved specifically so we could create new works of art or new productions.
~ James Altucher
They must continue to produce things they do not really admire, still less love, in order to continue buying things they do not really want, still less need.
~ James Baldwin
il surplus non esiste fino a che non viene creato dallo stato in embrione. Detto meglio, prima che lo stato riuscisse ad appropriarsi del surplus produttivo, questo veniva «usato» per avere tempo libero dal lavoro e per l'elaborazione culturale.
~ James C. Scott
The important point for our purpose is that a peasantry—assuming that it has enough to meet its basic needs—will not automatically produce a surplus that elites might appropriate, but must be compelled to produce it.
~ James C. Scott
quando in una famiglia c'erano più lavoratori che membri non lavoratori, la famiglia riduceva lo sforzo lavorativo complessivo una volta assicurata la produzione sufficiente.
~ James C. Scott
the motor industry, because of its countless allied industries, being the core of any capitalist society.
~ James Clavell
Among his innovations was the Liberty ship, a cargo vessel that could be mass-produced virtually like an oceangoing Model T. Using a breakthrough welding technique, submerged arc welding, that could stitch steel plate with molten rivets up to twenty times faster than existing methods, Kaiser's shipbuilders produced a Liberty ship in an average of only forty-two days.
~ James D. Hornfischer
The first time I'd ever had a go at production or recording, I just recorded in my room. I just put it on Soundcloud because I have family abroad, and I wanted to show them, 'Oh, hi, Uncle Carl, here's some music that I've done,' or whatever.
~ Lapsley
Theatre people, who are an adaptive species, know that to remain sane in the process of production where everyone and his uncle has an opinion about how to fix a show, you must pick the people whose knowledge and taste you trust and stick only to these few. The Tweetocracy is no place to look.
~ John Lahr
Publishers give you deadlines for those last phases of production that are perfectly comfortable for them. So, to whatever extent I can, I like to push those to give me a little more time, and make it so that they're as uncomfortable as I am.
~ Charles Frazier
I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
~ Harold Pinter