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Quotes About Production

With Jerry Bruckheimer, you know you'll get your money's worth. You're getting huge action sequences, it's going to be funny, and you know it's going to look great.
~ Jerry O'Connell
Whether youre making a million dollar film or a $100 million film there is never enough money, theres never enough time.
~ Vera Farmiga
There's so little difference between television and features as far as you make the film. I mean, you have less money and it's a little quicker, but the concept is all on television.
~ Joe Dante
The circulation of commodities is the original precondition of the circulation of money.
~ Karl Marx
Film is the art of turning money into light, and light into money. But it begins with money.
~ Richard Flanagan
Why don't they make more science fiction movies? The answer to any question starting, Why don't they- is almost always, Money.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Once a film costs a certain amount of money, things have to round off.
~ Tony Gilroy
With an inexperienced director, a lot of times the days go on to 14, 15, 16 hours. It goes horrendously overtime. And because of the lack of money, they just keep you there, regardless of the hours.
~ William H. Macy
I don't think you need $35 million bucks to make a movie. I think what people should do is make a lot more movies for a lot less money. You can really do it.
~ William Monahan
If I produce it, I will stage it as a performance. A small audience will be invited; rehearsals of the sections will be done in the mornings, and those sections will be recorded in the afternoons.
~ Bill Dixon
Labour is ... not the only source of material wealth, i.e, of the use-values it produces. As William Petty says, Labour is the father of material wealth, the earth is its mother.
~ Karl Marx
My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.
~ Mikhail Khodorkovsky
If necessity is the mother of invention, scientifically developed production is the mother of scientific research.
~ Arthur E. Kennelly
My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway.
~ Yancy Butler
The movies have got more corporate, they're making fewer movies in general, and those they are making are all $200-$300m tent-pole releases that eat up all the oxygen.
~ John Cusack
Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence, and anyone who can read without moving his lips should know it by now.
~ Brooks Stevens
I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.
~ Grace Slick
Taking employment out of the country - now that's taking away jobs. These shows employ a lot of people: production, post-production, music supervisors, camera people. A hundred people or more.
~ Corbin Bernsen
I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.
~ Sting
I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos.
~ Alex Winter
I think the music of the Fifties is really good. I suspect it's much better musically than much of what's available now. Not in terms of production, but in terms of content.
~ Frank Zappa
I'm all for in my production, creating really unique textures and sounds - for me that's what I love about music.
~ Flume
It takes a lot of money to make music and get it to people. It takes a lot of time to make a record sound good.
~ Grieves
Because I've been making music and releasing it for so long, I've got that production-line thing in my brain: I can't do anything new until the last one's out.
~ Aphex Twin