Quotes About Production

I think if you went to a studio and pitched the first 'Insidious,' it never would have gotten made because it was so offbeat.

I wanted to do 'Fargo' rather than do a TV production. I've been offered TV things over the years, but usually, that's about that I don't want to be away from home for that long because it's a long time to be away your home country and my family.

We're offered bigger, larger budget movies to produce a lot, and we don't do them. That's not to say there aren't exceptions: there are a few exceptions, but I try and stick by the rules that produce what I think is the highest quality, most innovative work and try and let the rules go that make us feel like we're retreading.

Really and truly, everyone just wants to be paid for what they've done, so they can continue to do it, and see your work in the highest production quality. TV offers that.

I don't talk about any of my projects until the production house makes an official announcement.

Many large brands are now just marketing machines for what's being made offshore.

We fail to boost our offshore production at our own expense.

Oil is a very important component of economic growth.

We get more oil from Canada than any country.

Iraq has, in effect, one export of any consequence. That's oil.

I never saw a bureaucracy produce a single barrel of oil.

Compounding Iraq's problem is that its economy is highly dependent on oil.

My movies are okay, but they're not my specials.

'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.

I tried to film 'Leaves of Grass' in Oklahoma, but it was literally about a million dollars less to shoot in Louisiana.

We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.

That's one of the things about theater vs. film - with theater, actors have a little more control, and one of the disappointing things about films is that once you're done shooting, anything can happen, you know?

One of the things that takes a bit of getting used to on an American series is having a different director, and often writer, every week.

The desire to avoid meltdowns actually is one of the things that screws up live-action films.

Any UFC fan has got to experience a live event at least one time. The energy and the production value is incredible. The experience is like being at a rock concert.

The only time I scream is when I see the 5 A.M. start on the call sheet.

I have a responsibility to diversity onstage, but one of the things I've heard about our production of 'Boys' is that it's a bunch of white guys. Well, race is a component of this play. You can't just drop people in willy-nilly and say, 'Well, we're going for diversity.'

Honda opened its first assembly line in Lincoln in November 2001.

In the U.S., we didn't have scale, and without scale, it's difficult to operate.