“The rest of the songs on the album [Mortal City ] have spare arrangements on them. Steve [Miller], really loved that. He'd just come off of a project with someone who basically had to mask the fact that there were no songs there with production. He said, "Oh, my God, you have real songs here!"” SaidRealFactsSongCitiesProjectsAlbumsProductionsMortalsMaskSparesArrangements Author:Dar Williams
“I would push for more production and Steve Miller would say, "Why do you want to have more production when you have real songs? You don't want to cover up the song."” WantRealSongProductionsCover Ups Author:Dar Williams
“I said earlier [2015] year that I thought we'd get to 10 or 20 bucks [per barrel ] because that's the marginal cost, and when you're in a price war, it's the marginal cost that determines the price.It is a price war because basically the OPEC reason did not cut production in their November 2014 meeting was that they got tired of cutting production and having American frackers and Russians et cetera grab market share.” YearsSaidWarReasonCuttingShareCostTiredMeetingsDetermineProductionsBucksNovemberBarrelsOpec Author:Gary Shilling
“OPEC production went from 30 million barrels a day to 33 million. They flooded the market, and it's lost them a lot of money. Look at the Saudis: they just floated a $17.5 billion debt offering, they earlier borrowed $10 billion from a group of international banks; they're selling part of Aramco - they're desperate for money.” LooksLostMillionsGroupsInternationalProductionsDebtBillionsSellingDesperateOfferingLots Of MoneyBorrowedSaudisBarrelsOpec Author:Gary Shilling
“When I was thinking about what we could do in terms of what production values of Broadway might be able to add to the show, I had this thought that it would be really cool if we had a coup de théâtre. What would they want? And then I was like, an amazing, enormous tuna puppet that was like 30 by 40 feet would be pretty incredible. So I called up Basil Twist, and he got really excited immediately and started sketching out his idea, and I think it's a real highlight of the show.” IfsThinkingWantIdeasRealShowsMightWould BeAbleValuesTermFeetAddIncrediblesProductionsExcitedEnormousBeing RealBroadwayTwistsReally CoolPuppetsHighlightsSketchingCoupsTunaBasil Author:Alex Timbers
“Before you start production, you have characters you have created without actors in mind, then all of a sudden you've got actors. They bring an enormous amount in creating these characters, and creating the dynamics between the characters that you've written.” MindCharacterActorsWrittenAmountCreatingProductionsEnormousDynamics Author:Charlie Kaufman
“The capacity to transfer production elsewhere is a weapon against the Western workers.” WeaponsCapacityWesternWorkersProductionsElsewhereTransfers Author:Noam Chomsky
“The actual consequences of Plan Colombia are to devastate peasant communities, which have been driven to drug production. These peasants have no particular desire to grow coca, but their other means of livelihood have been wiped out.” MeanHas BeensDesireGrowsCommunityPlansParticularDrugConsequenceProductionsDrivenPeasantsLivelihoodColombia Author:Noam Chomsky
“I actually never acted on "Deadwood." I have meetings all the time where people look at my IMDb page and see that I played the part of "Accounting Clerk" on Deadwood. Actually, I was the accounting clerk for production of "Deadwood."” PeopleLooksPagesMeetingsProductionsAccountingClerks Author:Anthony Jeselnik
“We've wanted to produce more in the 19th century and the 20th century in order to give man the possibility for more dignified human life; but actually what has happened is that production and consumption have become means - have ceased to be means and have become ends, and we are production crazy and consumption crazy.” MenGivingHumansMeanEndsWantedOrderHappenedCrazyCenturyPossibilityProduceProductionsHuman LifeConsumption20th Century19th Century Author:Erich Fromm
“Man today being concerned with production and consumption as ends in themselves, has very little engergy time to devote himself to the true religious experience.” MenLittlesEndsTodayReligiousConcernedProductionsConsumptionReligious Experience Author:Erich Fromm
“I think, to be specific, we got off the track when we concentrated more and more on production of things. Thereby, we created a split between intellect and emotion, because, in order to produce a modern technique, you have to use intellect, and we have created men who are very brilliant, who are very clever, but our emotional life has become impoverished.” ThinkingMenUseOrderEmotionModernProduceEmotionalTrackProductionsIntellectBrilliantTechniqueCleverSplitsVery CleverEmotional Life Author:Erich Fromm
“I understand by socialism a society in which the aim of production is not profit, but the use. In which the individual citizen participates responsibly in his work, and in the whole social organization, and in which he is not a means who is employed by capital.” MeanWholeUseIndividualSocialCitizensOrganizationAimProfitProductionsSocialismEmployedSocial Organization Author:Erich Fromm
“The Navajo Generating Station in Page, for example, employs hundreds of people, mostly Native Americans, and provides nearly all of the power for the Central Arizona Project. That means our entire state has a big stake in the energy production and economic stability of these plants.” PeopleMeanStatesBigsEnergyEconomicExampleProjectsPagesPlantProductionsNativeStationsStabilityStakesNative AmericanArizonaEnergy ProductionEconomic Stability Author:Ann Kirkpatrick
“In England, all the English car companies were beginning to circle the drain in a series of well-deserved failures and bankruptcies, earned by making lousy products with very poor production at high prices. So, the government, back in the '70s, nationalized all the British car companies. The result was British Leyland, a name that perhaps doesn't resonate much with you.” WellsGovernmentNamesPoorResultsCompanyCarProductsEnglandSeriesProductionsBritishCirclesDrainsBankruptcyHigh Prices Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“I had the good fortune to direct my first professional production with one of my Dad's masterpieces, The Man Who Came To Dinner. What it taught me was how beautifully the Kaufman and Hart plays are constructed: with economy, and wit, and warmth, and a sensibility, and heart/Hart that appeals to every stripe of theatregoers. It was a gift that can't be underestimated.” MenFirstsHeartPlayEconomyTaughtHe ManDadDirectFortuneMy DadProductionsDinnerWitAppealsWarmthSensibilityMasterpieceGood FortuneUnderestimatedStripesHart Author:Chris Hart
“What makes You Can't Take It With You so popular and a perennial favorite with student and amateur productions (it continues to be one of the top 10 best-selling plays year after year) is the breadth of characters and personalities on display: in age, race, gender, social status, a true cross section of society when the play was written and also true today in terms of the reality of the humanity on display.” YearsPlayCharacterRealityAgeTodayHumanitySocialTermRaceWrittenStudentsPersonalityCrossesProductionsGenderSellingDisplaySectionsBreadthSocial StatusTop 10 Author:Chris Hart
“Even though the play [ The Best Man] was written a long time ago, the characters seem modern and their struggles to make ends meet and to "have a little fun along the way" have a very contemporary feel. The similarity between the The Great Depression and The Great Recession - as well as the gulf between the super-rich and the ordinary Joe - still rings a bell. One of the things this production accentuates is how beautifully Grandpa and his family accept all kinds of people - rich or poor, black or white - and the best thing that can happen to you is to be part of a loving family.” PeopleMenWayFeelsWellsKindLittlesLongStillsEndsPlayCharacterSeemsHappensFunBlackWhitePoorAcceptingStruggleRichWrittenModernLong TimeOrdinaryProductionsRingsContemporaryAll KindsBest ThingsBellsLong Time AgoSimilarityRecessionsGreat DepressionGrandpaBlack Or WhiteRich Or PoorAccentuateLoving FamilyGreat Recession Author:Chris Hart
“The only thing contrived is the production - you can over-produce to the point you kill a good idea, you can under-produce so that the song's amazing but you'll have folks at a radio station saying they won't play it, so there's this balance, and it has to be true.” IdeasPlaySongProduceBalanceFolksRadioProductionsBeing TrueStationsGood IdeasRadio Stations Author:Ryan Tedder
“Any time you have a song that is directly connected to a very specific musical trend of the moment, you have immediately cut it off at the knees, doesn't matter if it goes to number one in the world, if you're too attached to a production style.” IfsWorldMatterMomentsSongNumbersCuttingStyleMusicalProductionsConnectedKneesTrends Author:Ryan Tedder
“I find the songs that have the most human components in production are the ones that will stand the test of time.” HumansSongTestsProductionsComponentsTest Of Time Author:Ryan Tedder
“Orson Welles, one of the best of the best. One of the strongest. As strong as an animal. He somehow was pushed out of the business because he would spend the entire budget of the film before he had even done half the pre-production.” DoneFilmStrongAnimalHalfProductionsBudgetsStrongestBest Of The Best Author:Werner Herzog
“When I see a face, I see a face in general and I see you are curious, I see the curiosity but I don't not look after a dermatological report of your cheeks, and that's what you see when you're too high-resolution. And now desperately in post-production, in color grading, they are trying to wipe out the precision of the dermatological report.” TryingLooksFacesColorCuriosityProductionsCuriousPostsReportsResolutionCheeksWipePrecisionPost Production Author:Werner Herzog
“One of the problems of a director on the set is that we become overwhelmed by all the factors and threads of production, that sometimes we can't focus on our main job, which is steering the performances to create the whole film.” SometimesWholeProblemJobsFilmFocusDirectorsPerformancesProductionsFactorsThreadOverwhelmedSteering Author:Whit Stillman
“You work with each individual actor as you perceive their needs to be. It's something that you've figured out in the weeks of pre-production.” NeedsActorsIndividualWeekProductionsPerceive Author:Rebecca Miller
“Renewable energy is far more labor-intensive than fossil fuel production.” EnergyLaborProductionsFuelFossilsFossil FuelRenewable Energy Author:Bill McKibben
“For me, I'm not in an industry where I'm starving. I'm so lucky to have this job, I'm compensated for my work in an incredible way. But what I do ask is when I join a production I want to make sure that the male actor isn't making four times my salary, which has been true, or seven times my salary. And if that's true you go, you know what, I don't need this job. It's not really asking for more - it's asking for something that is respectable and equal to the male actor and you have to go, why are women being valued less?” IfsKnowsWayWantNeedsHas BeensJobsActorsAsksFourIndustryLuckyEqualAskingSevenMalesIncrediblesProductionsSalaryStarvingRespectableSo LuckyTrue You Author:Jessica Chastain
“Two hundred years ago, we were all busy farming and we all had a role to play. The home was a unit of production. We made food and all the things we needed, we took care of our kids and were connected to purpose in our evolution. When the Industrial Revolution came along, it took away a lot of the work the men had done.” MenYearsMadeTwoDonePlayHomeCareKidsPurposeRolesHe ManRevolutionEvolutionNeededHundredYears AgoBusyProductionsConnectedUnitsFarmingIndustrial Revolution Author:Peter Buffett
“A nation like China has become one of the biggest production fields for exporting cheap labor, which also re-questions our history and past, re-questions human desire, and the human illusions of the past.” HumansPastDesireNationsFieldsIllusionLaborProductionsChinaExportingCheap Labor Author:Ai Weiwei
“I learned a lot about the business side of the industry and some new production tools. It's getting more and more difficult, because of my exploding gig schedule.” DifficultSidesIndustryToolsProductionsSchedulesGigsExploding Author:Martin Garrix
“ITV and the production company contacted me and asked if I fancied playing the role [of Maigret]. It took me a long time to decide to do it. In fact, I decided not to. I thought about it for some weeks, and thought 'perhaps not' and it went away for a while, and then it sort of came back. They said 'Are you sure you don't want to play him?', so I thought about it for a lot longer again, and eventually decided that I would.” IfsWantLongSaidPlayFactsCompanyRolesWeekLong TimeDecidedProductionsThey Said Author:Rowan Atkinson
“I'm sure that a French production of this [Maigret series] would be different. For better or worse, who's to say, but probably not very good for 8 o'clock on ITV.” DifferentWould BeSeriesVery GoodProductionsClock Author:Rowan Atkinson
“A couple of years ago, I went to see a production of Wicked in San Francisco with a friend of mine, one that Patty Duke was in, and he said, "Do you want to meet her?" And I said, "Yeah!" And I went backstage, and she walked out of her dressing room, looked at me, and said, "I know you." And I went, "Well, uh, yeah, I was in My Sweet Charlie." And she said, "Yeah! You were the guy in the car on the road!" And I was. It was amazing.” KnowsWantYearsWellsSaidGuyRoomsCarMinesSweetCoupleYears AgoYeahProductionsWickedDressingsSan FranciscoCharlieDukesDressing Rooms Author:Brent Spiner
“I am trying my best to stay above the water. Right now ACID does not only offer animation. I offer real life productions as well and also compositing (animation composited into real life video)” TryingWellsDoeRealWaterRight NowOffersProductionsReal LifeVideoAnimationAcid Author:St. Lucia
“I was miscast in that production [of Mother Courage and Her Children] ... but it was with Anne Bancroft, whose boyfriend at the time was Mel Brooks, and that made my - I can't say my day, it made my life, in a way.” WayChildrenMadeI CanMotherProductionsBrooks Author:Gene Wilder
“I would like to say something deeper, but for me, I saw a production of "Fences" in Rhode Island and a fabulous actress played Rose, but when she first came on the stage she was mad. You could just see it. She was all, "Troy stop!" So by the time you get to the revelation scene, I didn't think she loved him, so there was no loss. I think that the real tragedy and the real drama or the thing that makes you lean in is to see the love, to see the commitment. To see the fact that Rose is invested in this marriage no matter what.” ThinkingFirstsRealMatterFactsLossSawsStageDramaSceneCommitmentTragedyNo Matter WhatMadRoseProductionsDeeperActressesIslandsRevelationsFenceFabulousRhode Island Author:Viola Davis
“As the times are changing, you don't hear as many sample issues with rap artists. Part of that has to do with production styles these days, but the nature of copyright is also changing as the internet becomes more of a giant.” ArtistIssuesStyleInternetProductionsRapThese DaysGiantsCopyrightSampleTimes Are ChangingRap Artist Author:Girl Talk
“When we, for example, see shifts of huge production lines from certain areas to other countries, people tend to ask the question, "Where's my place in this modern world?" We have this here, this tendency in our country, we have it in other countries.” PeopleWorldCountryCertainAsksLinesModernExampleHugeAreasProductionsTendenciesOur CountryOther CountriesModern World Author:Angela Merkel
“I started entering in a series of problems I had never occupied myself with - water, production, employment. I am learning. You can do so many things. However, I don't feel guilty for living well here.” FeelsWellsProblemWaterCan DoSeriesProductionsGuiltyEmploymentEnteringLive Well Author:Franca Sozzani
“There are designers there, we have to think of production, but I am not changing Africa. But if we all do something together....We have to know our limits, I don't have the pretense I can change the world. And I don't want to set up events [to raise money]. Because what happens if the following year they don't have an event, they won't eat?” IfsThinkingKnowsWorldWantYearsI CanHappensTogetherEventsLimitsRaisesProductionsFollowingDesignerChanging The WorldPretense Author:Franca Sozzani
“I think they [TV productions] were just kind of drying up. I'd done a couple of episodes, but nothing was happening. So I went to Vancouver to visit a buddy and see what was going on, and that year was crazy. Vancouver was on fire at that point. It was all these Stephen J. Cannell productions - The Commish being one of them - and in one I was a bartender, and I think I had five lines.” ThinkingYearsKindDoneLinesFireFiveCrazyTvsCoupleHappeningsProductionsEpisodesBuddyVancouverBartender Author:Eric McCormack
“I've always put my own money into my own shows because today, if you want to stay in the business, you have to produce your own product because there is not enough production and enough people that create today so if you wanna work you produce it or you stay home.” PeopleIfsWantEnoughShowsHomeTodayMy OwnProduceProductsProductions Author:Debbie Reynolds
“'How the West was Won' was very hard, because it was a three cameras technique, meaning three cameras wide. Therefore I wasn't speaking to my fellow performer, I was speaking to a camera, or a line next to the camera. It was difficult to do, because its not real acting. I had to pretend that I was 'seeing' Agnes Moorhead or Jimmy Stewart or Carroll Baker. I wasn't, I was acting to a drawn line. It took me personally two years to make the film, because my character starts at age 16 and I end up being 92 years old in the film. By the end of that production, I was ready for a long nap.” YearsLongTwoRealEndsHardCharacterAgeFilmThreeNextDifficultLinesActingSeeingReadyCamerasFellowsWestProductionsWideTechniqueTwo YearsPerformersJimmyNapsBakersJimmy Stewart Author:Debbie Reynolds
“Apart from those other riders there is a whole production team [ of The Fourth Phase] behind the cameras too, hauling hundreds of kilos of fragile and awkward filming equipment up those same frozen landscapes. They're the real heroes.” RealWholeBehindsTeamHeroCamerasProductionsLandscapeFragileFourthAwkwardPhasesEquipmentFrozenRidersReal Heroes Author:Travis Rice
“Television production is so insane. There's so many moving parts and flying pieces and you're desperate to make it cohesive and artistic and have something to say about the human condition that feels like it has value to its existence.” FeelsHumansMovingValuesExistencePiecesConditionsTelevisionProductionsFlyingInsaneArtisticDesperateHuman ConditionMoving Parts Author:Bryan Fuller
“[My wife Margot] was the - I guess, the coordinator or the production manager [of The Jazz Review], and we got to know each other and we married.” KnowsWifeMarriedJazzProductionsMy WifeManagersReviewsCoordinator Author:Nat Hentoff
“I am not versed in production software. I have basic knowledge, but it ends there.” EndsProductionsSoftware Author:Young Thug
“There are various non-statistical tools that have been typically developed by lean companies, notably by Toyota for minimizing variability in production, such as standardization, introduction of takt time, synchronization, shortening the total production lead time which I am fond of referring to as non statistical tools.” Has BeensCompanyToolsProductionsVariousIntroductionReferringToyotaMinimizingStandardizationVariability Author:Masaaki Imai
“Cinema is the most challenging art form that you as an artist can create. It's easier to paint a painting because you're very alone. You just have the canvas in front of you and then you do stuff. I'm not saying it's easy to paint, but it's a solitary thing. Whereas movies combine so many different things from pre-production to production, sound design, production designing, leading, organizing, while still being creative.” ArtStillsDifferentFormArtistEasyStuffSoundChallengesCreativeFrontsDesignPaintingEasierPaintProductionsCinemaDifferent ThingsSolitaryCanvasBe CreativeSound Design Author:Baran Odar
“I go by the "Miles Davis school of production and band-leading", where you pick the best musicians you can, you provide them with a minimum of direction, and you just let the music happen. I've seen it work time and time again.” HappensSchoolBandMusicianPicksProductionsMilesMinimum Author:Jose James