Quotes About Production

Working on 'Skyfall' was the most enjoyable experience I've ever had on a movie, ever.

Each country has to decide how to best engage their own citizens and their own policy environment to ensure they can produce the food they need.

Making a book is such a big enterprise.

I don't ever do those kind of epic, huge, green-screen movies.

If I was going to direct an episode of 'Younger', I wanted it to look like an episode of 'Younger.'

'Kaafir' is an eight-episode series; but while shooting, you really don't know which part is for which episode.

It's not about creating 22 episodes indefinitely for as long as you can do.

It's impossible to make 22 or 16 great episodes every year. It doesn't matter who you are or how talented of a group you have.

In the time you make one series of 9-10 episodes, you can make 3 films.

In television, what you have shot in the morning, may go on air that very day in the evening; but films give you a lot of time to work on your character.

The first enslaving illusion is the idea that people are born to be consumers and that they can attain any of their goals by purchasing goods and services....What people do or make but will not or cannot put up for sale is as immeasurable and as invaluable for the economy as the oxygen they breathe.

All governments stress an employment-intensive force of production, but are unwilling to recognize that jobs can also destroy the use-value of free time. They all stress a more objective and complete professional definition of people's needs, but are insensitive to the consequent expropriation of life.

The more time, toil, and sacrifice spent by a population in producing medicine as a commodity, the larger will be the by-product, namely, the fallacy that society has a supply of health locked away which can be mined and marketed.

Maybe the weirdest moment, which came months after production, was the first time I sat down with John Williams to show him about a half an hour of the movie. I can't describe the feeling. All I will say is, just to state the facts of it: I am about to show John Williams 30 minutes of a Star Wars movie that he has not seen that I directed.

All the times I've been lucky enough to be a part of a show that's actually gotten on the air, it's always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear.

Information, if viewed from the point of view of food, is never a production issue. … It's a consumption issue, and we have to start thinking about how we create diets [and] exercise.

Industrialization finally drove the West out of a mercantile economy and into a capitalist one. Before industrialization, the most important factor in determining the wealth of a country was its volume of trade, or exports minus imports. After industrialization, the value of what a country could produce became more important.

Das Kapital

The goods produced by labour above what is necessary for survival Marx called the "Surplus Value".

There are three ways to increase profit: expand the market, increase the level of exploitation, and improve the technology so as to make production cheaper.

This means that workers can expect to get more money as society becomes more advanced, but only because more money is produced. As more of it is produced, it skews the balance of supply vs. demand and so causes inflation – it is as if money itself gets cheaper. So the rate at which wages increase will tend to be the same as the rate of inflation – nominal but never real, in economic terms.

The best that workers can hope for is a condition of full employment, and that can be achieved only by increasing production at a rate matching the growth of the population. This solution, however, was not enough for the most prominent thinker of classical liberal ideology

Smith believed that economic growth stems from specialization. The best way to maximize profit and the efficiency of production was for people to specialize in a few select skills, rather than produce whole products themselves.

traditional histories of art emphasize periods and styles, and focus on Western artistic production, and this can obscure other approaches, for instance the grouping of artworks