Production Quotes
Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production. - Joseph A. Schumpeter
We seem to want mass production, but we must remember that men are individuals not to be satisfactorily dealt with in masses, and the making of men is more important than the production of things. - Ralph W. Sockman
Excessive literary production is a social offense. - George Eliot
Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant. - Margaret Fuller
It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work. - Ernst Friedrich 'Fritz' Schumacher
Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production. - Joseph Brodsky
Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
I like digital cameras, because they enable you to reminisce immediately. - Demetri Martin
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. - Ambrose Bierce
Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. that's not the place to become discouraged. - Thomas Alva Edison
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote. - E.M. Forster
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. - Vince Lombardi
Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it creative observation. - Creative viewing. - William S. Burroughs
Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are. - Robert Bresson
No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built. - Frank Lloyd Wright
If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost an eye trying to count his nineteen elephants during a snowstorm while crossing the Alps. -James Thurber
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. - Salvador Dali
Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organisation, not part of the fabric. - Phil Crosby
I don't really analyze my stuff when I write. I write about stuff that I'm interested in, that I'm feeling at that particular time. When I stand back and look at the complete work, I might see themes that run through the whole film, but I'm not really conscious of it when I'm doing it. - Spike Lee
Nowadays, if a studio assumes that his film is bad, there is always an executive that gets more nervous than usual and thinks that if they change the music, the film will become a masterpiece. - Maurice Jarre
François Truffaut defined a great movie as a perfect blend of truth and spectacle. Now it's become bifurcated. Studio films are all spectacle and no truth, and independent films are all truth and no spectacle. - Howard Franklin
As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone. - Andy Goldsworthy
So much of the work is intuitive. The resistance you detect is just that, a kind of evasion, a sense that too much analysis will inhibit creativity. - Peter Weir
The spirit must be felt so intensely that it has power to call others in passing, for it must pass, not stop in the pictures. - Emily Carr
Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images. - Steven Bochco
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark. - Henri Frederic Amiel
Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay. - Sam Abell
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. - James Dean
They want more production and they want it cheaper. But no matter what happens, the creative idea will be perpetuated by somebody who comes up with a vision. I don't care if there are three CEOs - it takes one guy with an idea. - Joe Grant
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. - W. Somerset Maugham
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm. - Benjamin Disraeli
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort. - John Ruskin
We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs. - Aaron Siskind
I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness. - Joan Miro
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event. - Henri Cartier-Bresson
Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown. - Soren Kierkegaard
Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed. - Howard Nemerov
Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life. - George Arliss
Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection. - Alban Berg
Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late. - Benjamin Franklin
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous. - Leonardo da Vinci
All people dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their mind, wake in the morning to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous people, for they dream their dreams with open eyes, and make them come true. - T.E. Lawrence, a.k.a. Lawrence of Arabia.
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it. - O. Henry
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. - Ansel Adams
Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand, and I will move the world. – Archimedes
Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is -- it is her shadow. - Philip James Bailey
From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. - Ludwig van Beethoven
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. - Buckminster Fuller
I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence. - Man Ray
Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings. - Kathy Bates
To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body—both go together, they can’t be separated. - Jean-Luc Godard
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. - Malcolm Forbes
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. That is where they should be. Now put the foundation under them. - Henry David Thoreau
A day without laughter is a day wasted. - Charlie Chaplin
Film spectators are quiet vampires. - Jim Morrison
The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets. – Plato
Film and video do more for creating an understanding of what South Africa is about than does tourism. - Dumisani Phakathi, independent filmmaker.
The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking. - Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. - Jack London
The best dreams we often have are those that take us beyond what we may think is possible. - Dr Mamphela Ramphela
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper. - R. Serling
I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. - Orson Welles
A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar -- you pretend it's not there. - Daryl Hannah
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. - Groucho Marx
One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature. - George Jean Nathan
A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad. - Samuel Goldwyn
It is worth asking why trailers for feature films most often consist of violent and/or sexual clips. The entertainment industry is disingenuous. On one hand it claims that sex and violence have no effect on viewers, and yet it blatantly uses sex and violence to sell its products. - Dr Michael Rice, educational consultant and former special adviser to the minister of education
The creator is both detached and committed, free and yet ensnared, concerned but not too much so. If motivation is too strong the person is blinded; if the objective situation is too tightly structured, the person sees none of its alternative possibilities. - Robert Macleod
Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. - Dag Hammarskjold
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up. - Cyril Connolly
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth. - Henry Wadworth Longfellow
There's nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. - Peter F. Drucker
Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Today they build studios with almost complete isolation on each musician. They sit in little cages and listen on headphones. In my opinion, that's not so good for the creative process. We used to gather around the piano, run over the tunes a few times, and the musicians would get ideas for fills or for rhythm licks, and that was more fun. I know that still goes on, but it's not the same. - Chet Atkins
If you're photographing in colour you show the colour of their clothes - if you use black and white, you will show the colour of their soul. - Author Unknown
A film is a petrified fountain of thought. - Jean Cocteau
When you try to formalize or socialize creative activity, the only sure result is commercial constipation . . . . The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups. - Charles Browder
The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy. - Louis Kronenberger
A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stencilled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask. - Susan Sontag