Quotes About Production

We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant.

There is a strong link between the following three things: exporting, manufacturing and the degree of saving by the population. It's complicated, but if the population doesn't save, the economy will not tend to export as much, and if it doesn't export as much, it won't manufacture enough.

Salaries should be set based on production and contributions, not positions.

In the old days, you cut out a scene that might've been a really great scene, and no one was ever going to see it ever again. Now, with DVD, you can obviously... there's a lot of possibilities for scenes that are good scenes.

I think sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical.

When I go in the studio with Post, I have a really good idea of what he's going to gravitate to, what we can work with.

There are two phases to a movie. First you shoot the movie, and then you make the movie. Generally, post-production is longer than filming.

I played a lot of keyboards, but I really wanted to produce the sound that was in my head that I was trying to emulate on the keys. I wanted to do it for real. And it makes me look at the keys in a different way. So it's like I'm looking at the guitar and bass more like meat and potatoes and keys like coloring over top of it, you know.

Consistency is very important when you're making films.

I love the consistency of working on television. You don't get that in working on film.

Celebrities, whether from the world of entertainment or politics, moralize about the need to change individual consumption when they should be moralizing about the need to change collective energy production.

Content begets content.

I don't have continuity people. I don't have clapper boards. I don't have monitors. I shoot very fast, I shoot a lot, and we just keep on going.

Making 'Caddyshack' was like an exercise in controlled chaos.

People don't understand how long it really takes to find beats. Sometimes they're not all the way there, but it's elements in them I love. Then I get to take them to get chopped up. Ye got to cook over a few of them.

I always cooperate to complete a film within the budget. Not a single film of mine has overshot its budget.

Manufacturing is the seed corn for other jobs in the U.S.

We are the only state that does not have a State Film Corporation there to support the commercial industry.

I think I make good beats, but when it's not mastered correctly, it can definitely make it sound like it's not a good beat, and that has been an issue sometimes with me in the past.

When a city lends itself to film shoots, it becomes cosmopolitan.

It's so hard and impossible to shoot in L.A. The costs are astronomical.

The bond company comes in if you exceed your costs; they're the insurers of the film. In the worst-case scenario, they take over the production.

I grew up doing a lot of theater - acting and making sets and costumes.

A lot of people don't do this. You can count on a couple of hands probably how many artists also produce and write, both for themselves and for others, and are able to be successful at both things.