Quotes About Production

When you're doing a legitimate play, if you have a company of 12, it's considered a big cast.

There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it.

We do pretty much the same set list every night, and the show's down to certain cues because we have video and all this production and lights and everything going on.

I don't like overdubs, never liked them.

The joke of being a showrunner is that people ask how you get it all done, and you don't. The list of things I don't get done in a given day is longer than the list of things I do. And one of the things that's first to go is watching dailies.

My dream was always to be on the production side of things. Even as a little kid, when my dad would bring me to the studio, I always loved that.

I did loads of sessions with Andrew Oldham.

Typically, whenever you're envisioning how you're going to shoot something, you have a location or a set that you're going to build, and it's going to be built to specifications.

UP has such beautiful locations and such ease of shooting.

No I.D. executive-produced 'Under Pressure' and helped me find the Logic sound that's evolving every day.

You're on set more when you produce an episode, and it's long hours, but you learn so much.

Films are a long process and the script is the first part.

With movies, it always feels like such a long shot getting it made.

I love songs, so when you're song-based, it doesn't matter which way the production leans.

Working on a film is so great because you have the luxury of more time when you're on a movie than when you're on television.

My dad had 'Mad at You' down on the guitar before I even had finished the production on the record... he learned it within, like, five minutes.

How different would this country be if few were engaged in making money and many in making things.

You can't make a movie about making movies - it's boring.

When you keep things responsible and manageable, you can make some interesting movies that you maybe couldn't make otherwise.

I enjoy building more than managing.

Money is the great instrumentality for manufacturing.

Everyone is concerned about manufacturing in this country.

Manufacturing all over the world has the benefit of efficiency. That's great. I support it.

Peering succeeds because it leverages self-organization—a style of production that works more effectively than hierarchical management for certain tasks.