Quotes About Production

I started producing in California, and they called it mob music. When I moved to Atlanta, the sound was different. People in Atlanta didn't like to rap over West Coast beats. So I had to make adjustments to what was going on in the South.

Levi's can produce many more Western jeans than we can and make them at a better price.

Russia's oil fields are mature and require capital and Western technology even to keep production flat.

We judge economics by what it can produce. As such, economics is rather more like engineering than physics: more practical than spiritual.

I noticed that there were all these kinds of practices in a working set that had to be un-practiced on 'Far from Heaven,' which was so interesting.

Nowadays they either want to move the film to Canada or in some cases they go to Prague or Romania or they want to keep 'em down in L.A.

While 'Yaariyan' took me time in pre-production, I also had issues with the censor certification.

There are not enough going into production so that we can tout them. Look at 'Precious'... In order for them to stand out, they have to get made in the first place, and that's just not happening enough.

I prefer working behind the camera.

We really do prefer to build things rather than destroy things, believe it or not.

I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.

I've always preferred being behind the camera.

Premier came into the picture when were starting to make our own beats and all that.

It's hard to prep a movie in five days and shoot it in five days and cut it in barely any time. You don't get quite enough time to make the thing, let alone tell the story.

Movies are made in the scriptwriting process and prepping and preparations for the shooting process.

With TV, you don't get much time to prepare. It's all done that day itself, on the set. Shoot, and leave.

Working as an AD and producer prepares you in the sense that you know what you have to do to make a film. But nothing prepares you for your first film.

One of the criteria for a global company is that it should have a manufacturing presence in multiple countries and should not only be an exporter.

The difference between an actor and a star is the budget and the overall presentation of a film.

Student TV and radio are great grounding for all presenting. Just to get used to coming up with an idea, making it and getting it out there, I think that's a really good pattern and a good habit to get into.

We're manufacturing to meet the demands of our own people but, in the meantime, for the entire world as well, and that definitely put a lot of extra pressure on our environment.

We worked under a lot of pressure... three days to do an episode, sometimes two in a week, 39 episodes a year.

One term that's used in this industry a lot is this notion of 'feeding the beast.' You've got all of these people whose livelihoods are dependent on it. There are enormous pressures to keep material going into it, and the pressures to feed it are not irrational. They're the basis of your business.

'Pod' was a significantly larger crew with Ilium Pictures co-producing. 'Darling' was bare bones. We had less than half of the crew that we had for 'Pod.'