Quotes About Production

I think filmmaking is a team work and it's a shared responsibility.

Any filmmaking, any film is a collaborative process. There's always a lot of people working on things together.

Feature filmmaking is a different kind of complication as documentary comes in the editing room.

I love the team aspect of filmmaking.

I started with digital filmmaking. I've pretty much only done digital filmmaking.

When people finance a movie, they have their own ideas and have things they want to change.

There's no big budget Canadian movie. Whatever movies are big budget in Canada come from the States. Or also have States financing. Everything's pretty small.

The casting process for 'Hate Mail' just got so difficult. Once you lock in one person and then you try to find the next person, you lose the first person and then the financing falls away.

I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies.

I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience.

Lots of shows are written completely in the writer's room. And I wouldn't say 'The Walking Dead' is that way. There are three levels to it. There's us in the room. The writers going off by themselves. And me working with the writers on a finished script.

I shot 'Girl' about three weeks after I finished 'The Magnificent Seven.'

My first job out of college was at PBS as an administrative assistant. I thought I would be on the production side of things.

My first love is making records, and whatever's necessary in order for me to achieve that, I'll learn how to do it.

There's a few things I learned from my experience on 'Hieroglyph.' First of all, I learned that building a world doesn't need to be as expensive as a summer blockbuster. Yeah yeah, newsflash, I know.

I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.

Most of the time I approach a track as series of experiments: seeing what fits, and trying to manipulate sounds into each other so they have some kind of dialogue, and then start building a structure around it.

Whoever makes something, having bought or contracted for all other held resources used in the process... is entitled to it. The situation is not one of something's getting made, and there being an open question of who is to get it. Things come into the world already attached to people having entitlement over them.

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

Whole Foods has been brilliant at changing the way food is produced because they just won't buy it if it doesn't meet their standards.

One thing people forget about is that behind the camera are hundreds of people without whom we couldn't make the show. Each of them is doing an important task, it's just the actors become the face of the series.

All novelists must form their personal pacts in some way with the slowness of their craft. There are some who demand of themselves a 'rate of production,' for whom it's a matter of pride to complete, say, a book every year.

In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition. So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster.

For a few years, there were three shows running on Broadway that I had all opened: 'Chicago,' 'Wicked' and 'Anything Goes.'