Quotes About Production

The difficulty of getting a movie made through a major studio is so extreme that when a movie comes out, everyone should give it four stars because it was accomplished.

I'm a recording studio guy, an engineer, a songwriter and a guitar player, in that order.

The studio system reminds me of the stock market.

I have my own studio down in Miami.

In the studio, if they need to come down to the floor, things are a bit pushy, although it is easier for them to say things directly rather than through about five people.

I like to explore a lot of textural, arrangement aspects in the studio.

With an independent film, you have a little more freedom, and you also have less money, so you're sort of struggling to get it done, to get something that works. With a big studio, everything is there for you, and it's easier.

I also have a recording studio that I use to produce bands.

And I like being able to go back and forth, and I don't really care if it's a small budget or big budget or studio or independent, as long as it's got a story that's compelling and there's enough money to make the picture.

You could just do independent movies, but I like bigger kind of studio movies, at least some of them.

The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago.

I prefer playing in the studio because you have much more control over things.

What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.

That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films.

We've been working with the very best in the business. The studio really just let us alone to make the films.

Big studio comedies are such a headache.

A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.

I started a recording studio. I started producing people and doing remixes.

I'm a serious student of music, a perfectionist in the studio, and I take the arrangement and production of it very seriously, down to the mixing and mastering even. But at the same time I'm having so much fun with it. I try not to take myself so seriously.

Honestly, most of the stuff I made for 'TV on the Radio,' I write in the studio.

I loved the medium of TV from the first moment that I got into a studio.

It seems like the studios are either making giant blockbusters, or really super-small indies. And the mid-level films I grew up on, like 'Back to the Future' and all those John Hughes movies, the studios aren't doing. It's hard to get them on their feet.

When I first started in the business, it was hardly ever done. But today, it almost feels like studios go out and preview movies knowing full well that they're going to use the information they get to go back and reshoot.

Getting a movie made is a miracle... because the studios are only interested in making 'The Avengers.'