Top 534 Production Quotes

I was never on the side of the teachers at school. Even though I put all the work into getting the main role in the end-of-year musical when I was 11, they didn’t give it me, even though they knew I should have had it. That sort of drove me into am dram and getting the main part in another production. And I did.
Michael Socha
We know that inflation distorts economic behavior. In the 1970s, a combination of high tax rates and inflation prompted investors to flee production in favor of protection.
Nina Easton
Venture capital is unscalable. Production equals the time each partner has.
Bill Gurley
I thought that if I could speed up the production of animation, I could make a big business out of recreating the amazing images of the news because what we get on TV is always the last bit of image.
Jimmy Lai
I have always felt that my career was not going to be a straight shot up, but more of a kind of rolling wave, so that I could raise my children. So I got pregnant when I was the head of production at a studio, and I became chairperson at a bigger studio when I was pregnant with my second daughter. You just do it!
Stacey Snider
All foreign companies registered in China are Chinese enterprises. Their innovation, production and business operations in China enjoy the same treatment as Chinese enterprises.
Hu Jintao
The picture has made its million back in four months; I have been overwhelmed by letters, hundreds of them, literally, begging me in my next production not to swing over the shallow trash of mother love, father love, sister love, brother love.
Erich von Stroheim
The answer has to be sought in the material conditions of the production and utilization of cattle in India compared with the production and utilization of cattle in other parts of the world.
Marvin Harris
The production must be faithful to the line. If the pro

The production must be faithful to the line. If the production fails, my work fails.
Elsa Peretti
In the case of Apple, they did originally do production internally, but then along came unbelievably good outsourced manufacturing from companies like Foxconn. We don’t have that in the rocket business. There’s no Foxconn in the rocket business.
Elon Musk
The more commercial work that is happening, the more people are operating cameras and are setting up studio lights, the greater the opportunity for drama production to happen.
Ann Macbeth
The strongest interactions are the nuclear interactions, which include the forces that bind nuclei together and the interaction between the nuclei and the z mesons. It also includes the interactions that give rise to the observed strange-particle production.
Chen-Ning Yang
‘As You Like It’ was the first Shakespeare production I ever did.
Zoe Wanamaker
Some of the biggest changes that have happened are behind the scenes, in the way we produce the magazine. E.g., much of our production has been brought in-house via desktop publishing.
Stanley Schmidt
A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.
Tom Stoppard
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
Thomas A. Edison
If we save people from HIV/AIDS, if we save them from malaria, it means they can form the base of production for our economy.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture – not only national culture but global culture.
Barbara Kruger
I used to visit one production house every day, and I used to take up auditions even for small roles. Before my debut, I must have auditioned at almost every single production house.
Aishwarya Rajesh
I think if I produced a show I would not want to be part of that production. That’s not… I’m not… I mean, I couldn’t even sell Boy Scout chocolate bars when I was a kid!
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
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
Early on I did all the production for UGK, like on ‘Southern Way.’ Yeah, 90 percent of the production and not for any other reason then I couldn’t find anybody that would give me what I needed, so I had to make it myself.
Pimp C
We’re in a golden age for television. TV 25 years ago was slow, plodding , boring. The production values were not great. Today it’s so much better. People get really invested it.
Adrian Dunbar
For much of Toyota’s history, we have ensured the quality and reliability of our vehicles by placing a device called an andon cord on every production line – and empowering any team member to halt production if there’s an assembly problem. Only when the problem is resolved does the line begin to move again.
Akio Toyoda
My toughest criticism usually comes from myself. As my editor can attest to, I’m never done tweaking a book until the production department has to rip it from my hands!
Kresley Cole
A product can turn bad, not the production. When you start a film, you feel it will be great. But sometimes, as it progresses, it fails somewhere. You can’t blame anyone for that. You can blame only your own intelligence!
Mammootty
I have my own dance and production companies, and acting is my creative outlet. It’s what I’m passionate about. I’ve actually created a lifestyle where I could act for free. I could get a job to pay the bills and act on the weekends to make me smile.
Brian J. White
‘G.I. Joe’ is a $200 million movie. The makeup trailer was as big as my house! It was a whole other different production. It blows me away. I’m just going, ‘Wow, I’m in that.’
Marlon Wayans
You hear about actors being late and all that sort of stuff, but you never find that with an actor who’s directed, because an actor who’s directed understands all the problems your production is going through.
Clint Eastwood
I went to anything that was on at the Lyceum in Edinburgh. I was quite geeky. There was a production of ‘Look Back in Anger’ with David Tennant and Kelly Reilly in it, and it blew me away. I still think about it and look back on it as the moment where I decided, ‘I want to do that.’
Chloe Pirrie
The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.
John Philip Sousa
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
I think part of what made the original ‘Sufferfest’ charming was the extremely low production value. It was all shaky handheld footage from Cedar.
Alex Honnold
Music’s staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.
Gary Wright
The next day I was in my school’s production of All My Sons. This was the performance where I realized something was happening between me and the audience that I hadn’t recognized before.
Kevin Spacey
Milk production is one of India’s great success stories.
Abhijit Banerjee
Climate protection creates sustainability and jobs in the real economy – in construction, in the production of heavy machinery and in systems engineering.
Sigmar Gabriel
Seattle isn’t known for a particular production sound, so that leaves a lot of great producers in Seattle doing kind of their own thing. And I think, for me, I was probably enough removed from hip-hop that my style was even a little bit weirder than that.
Ryan Lewis
I think people forget that a lot of directing is just real management of the size of a production.
Gavin Hood
I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Cap

I’ll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
Barry Bostwick
The most important asset you need to protect in order to manage the demands of a job or an investment portfolio is your production of energy. And, just like with money, if you do a great job managing your energy, you’ll get a great return.
Jim Loehr
These code authorities could regulate production, quantities, qualities, prices, distribution methods, etc., under the supervision of the NRA. This was fascism.
John T. Flynn
Writing one’s first novel, getting it sold, and shepherding it through the labyrinths of editing, production, marketing, journalism, and social media is an arduous and nerve-wracking process.
Paul Di Filippo
For me, the gallery legitimates the art production and helps build collections. I don’t think an artist should do everything by himself forever. I did it for years and then slowly built my circle of trust.
JR
I wanted to be involved in TV and film in some capacity, so a compromise, because acting seemed unrealistic, and so risky, was to get into the production side. And it was a really fortunate, smart move looking back on it, because it gave me perspective on another side of the business.
Wentworth Miller
My profession is called record production.
Tony Visconti
I am always working on new material with my production partner Phil Murphy in our guise as Man Ray; we do a lot of soundtrack work & some great collaborations.
Peter Hook
I went to Howard University and majored in Film Production and minored in Acting. I turned down an opportunity to go pro in Track & Field to do this – I took a chance with this.
Lance Gross
In this business you break a leg and 150 other people are out of work while production is shut down. It’s not like you were an accountant and could still work with your leg in a cast.
Ken Curtis
During the last war when there was a market for everything that could be produced, the production capacity of Canada and the United States, which were outside the battle area, increased one hundred percent.
John Boyd Orr
Instead of going to the ends of the Earth – and plumbing the depths of the oceans – to squeeze out every last drop of oil, we need, instead, to do everything we can to reduce the risks of offshore oil and gas production.
Frances Beinecke
When the ‘Fight Club’ movie was going into production, I quit my job so I could write full-time.
Chuck Palahniuk