Productions Quotes - Page 8

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.

Graham Swift

Book, Pride, Years

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I was in college, and very disappointed. I majored in commercial art and interior design for three or four years. At that time, it seemed the thing I really wanted to do, production design, just wasn't available in the U.K., so I turned to music.

Eric Burdon

Art, College, Years

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I think my own strengths are in television production.

Jim Henson

Thinking, Television, My Own

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The conditions which now exist in Germany make it impossible for industrial production to reach the levels which the occupying powers agreed were essential for a minimum German peacetime economy.

James F. Byrnes

Essentials, Germany, Levels

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In the late 1980s the amount of German films was down to four or five percent of the market, and the remaining 95 percent were American. It is now 20 to 30 percent German productions.

Wim Wenders

Four, Film, Late

"'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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I was drafted and went to Korea where I had an opportunity to create a production team that did dramatic and comedy shows. I had also done a little disc jockeying.

Casey Kasem

Team, Opportunity, Korea

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The first syndicating I tried was when two partners and I created a production company in 1952. We wanted to syndicate famous Bible stories and sell them for $25 a show.

Casey Kasem

Bible, Two, Stories

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My character was kidnapped by the Terminator and I was kidnapped by the Terminator production.

Claire Danes

Character, Kidnapped

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McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object.

Dave Eggers

Book, Design, Effort

"Dave Eggers: 'We tend to look everywhere but the mirror'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2013.

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I get most of my inspiration from older records and older production styles, and that ends up rearing its head in the records that I make.

M. Ward

Inspiration, Style, Records

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I was very much in my room with my marionette stage, you know, creating these incredibly boring things that I felt were so fascinating, and forcing my relatives to come, and charging money for them to see my little productions.

Bob Balaban

Creating, Littles, Rooms

Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. March 3, 2003.

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I'm from Chicago, my family started a chain of movie theaters in Chicago that were around for 70 years and then one of them became the head of Paramount and the other was the head of production at MGM and we all came out of Chicago.

Bob Balaban

Years, Chicago, My Family

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I had to work out where I was going, what type of films I wanted to make. For that reason, I decided to choose independent productions, less important roles, and I tried theater, too.

Elizabeth Berkley

Independent, Work Out, Important

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People try to read a lot into what 'digital' means. It's just another platform. There are very attractive things that happen if you invest in content - movies, TV production, acquired series, specialty genres, digital distribution of our magazines, sports rights.

Jeffrey Bewkes

Sports, Mean, Rights

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It doesn't seem as if there's that much of a difference between a big production and a little production, other than you have a smaller space in which to get dressed and you have a shorter waiting time.

Jennifer Beals

Differences, Space, Waiting

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I have agreed to lend my voice to Nature's Guard, an animated series which hopefully will go into production in the near future. The characters are all animals. My voice will be for a character named Longtail.

Jeremy Bulloch

Character, Animal, Animated Series

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I already have a production company called J Squared and we're working on two projects.

Jordana Brewster

Two, Projects, Company

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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

Mother, Vegas, Grandfather

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My father is a university professor so when the schools needed a little kid for their productions I was often the kid they used. The first time I was ever on stage was about 2nd grade.

Michael Cerveris

Father, Kids, School

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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I've always enjoyed that kind of thing - thinking about the production of narrative and why it is that when we read a novel, we don't notice the fact that someone who might be very close-mouthed or tight-lipped is perfectly willing to tell us a story in 600 or 700 pages.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

Thinking, Stories, Narrative

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I take things on a day to day basis when it gets really hectic. But I do think long term and I'm looking forward to the next couple of years when I do start producing my own films with my production company and playing some characters that are older and that's really exciting to me.

Erika Christensen

Couple, Character, Thinking

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Putin has a lot at stake here and restoring the relationship with the United States, and there are already signs as Sandy mentioned that he's moving in the right direction to begin to ascertain that their trade with Iran is not used for the production of nuclear weapons.

Frank Carlucci

Moving, Iran, United States

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You know the green grifters have no argument when they start raising the 'no blood for oil' cry on the blogs. Excuse me, if Obama's make-sure-your-tires-are-properly-inflated administration would simply allow more energy production here in the U.S., that wouldn't be a problem very long, would it?

Howie Carr

Blood, Oil, Long

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In the evening, since I have a lot of friends in theater, we might take in a Deaf West production in North Hollywood, or, since I'm a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, they have screenings that are really great.

Tim DeKay

Art, Hollywood, Lots Of Friends

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Publishers give you deadlines for those last phases of production that are perfectly comfortable for them. So, to whatever extent I can, I like to push those to give me a little more time, and make it so that they're as uncomfortable as I am.

Charles Frazier

Giving, Phases, Littles

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