Quotes About Production

We will work to bring an element of stability to the price of oil.

A live action movie is work, and an animated movie is you showing up in your pajamas once every three months, or in my case, just a splash of baby powder. It's not any kind of heavy lifting.

A TV show is constant work, which is the great thing about it.

You have to make rough decisions with sequencing and work within the limitations of having good audio for 15 minutes on a vinyl side.

Any job ends up with stress, and certainly there's always a deadline looming when you work in TV. It's sort of constant.

When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.

I know I can't do everything myself. So I know I specialize in my melodies and I do some of my demo work. I pass it on to my producers who are much better at the production level

Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.

The work of creation is never without travail.

Producing is very much like running a business, where you find the project, you find the different people involved, you put the elements together, and you make sure they all work together well.

The work of the director is the work of constructing the shot list from the script.

You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air.

It's a great asset to you, on your first film, to bring some people with you from the television world because they understand the speed that you have to work with to get your grand ideas down.

I'm back into fashion which is great! Because they do all the terrible work of production for me.

Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job.

As far as the work I did with Timbaland, it was his sound and I just kinda floated in his direction. I just rapped over his traditional beats.

When you start working on a series, it's almost too much work. It's like a movie a week.

Perhaps the most important principle on which the economy of a manufacture depends, is the division of labour amongst the persons who perform the work.

My studio is a laptop. Everybody I work with is the same. We make computer music, we're the laptop generation.

The best thing about series TV is that everyone you work with is hand-picked, as compared to working on a film.

I have an incredible team of collaborators that work with me on all my films. I adore them and respect them tremendously. I can't wait to begin production on my next film so we can be reunited.

Chile could work as a double for L.A.; it's very production-friendly and there's terrific talent down there.

Well television is grueling. The hours are grueling, it's hard work, and there's a lot of pressure to get it done without a lot of rehearsal time.

Directing a film is a lot of work.