Productions Quotes - Page 17

• Going from 'Shark Night' to 'Piranha,' a guy holding a fish on a stick in front of you that they're going to replace in post-production, it's a lot different than seeing this animatronic shark that, if you get caught up in the moment, looks, acts and you sometimes think could be real.

  Chris Zylka

  Real, Night, Thinking

  "Exclusive: Chris Zylka Talks SHARK NIGHT 3D and THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 31, 2011.

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• A commodity has a value because it is a crystallization of social labor. The greatness of its value, or its relative value, depends upon the greater or less amount of that social substance contained in it; that is to say, on the relative mass of labor necessary for its production.

  Karl Marx

  Greatness, Relative Value, Substance

  Karl Marx (1913). “Value, Price and Profit”

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• The true test of all the arts is not solely whether the production is a true copy of nature, but whether it answers the end of art, which is to produce a pleasing effect upon the mind.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Art, Mind, Answers

  Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edward Malone (1867). “The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone”, p.132

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• One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of irregularity.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Perfection, Principles, Artistic

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• I'm basically the idea person. I'm not physically involved in the production. I don't have the necessary abilities, so I go to the top people.

  Jeff Koons

  Ideas, People, Collaboration

  Interview with Klaus Ottmann, www.jca-online.com. October 1986.

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• Agriculture specialists say our farm production is increasing and will go on increasing. Thank God.

  Vladimir Putin

  Agriculture, Thank God, Goes On

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• Let me here call attention to one of the most universally popular mistakes that have to do with photography - that of classing supposedly excellent work as professional, and using the term amateur to convey the idea of immature productions and to excuse atrociously poor photographs.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Photography, Mistake, Ideas

  Alfred Stieglitz, Richard Whelan, Sarah Greenough (2000). “Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes”

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• Performers always come back from the Edinburgh festival with adventure stories. Watts told a few: meeting a young kilt maker who spent a year in a madhouse after eating too much LSD, and accompanying Seattle actor and musician Michael McQuilken (of Collaborator Productions) to the hospital after a Frisbee accident. He reached up to catch it and cut his hand on a sign, .. He had to get a few stitches, but I think he can still play.

  Reggie Watts

  Adventure, Cutting, Thinking

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• You have to love writing a song and architecture. You have to give it a form. It is my job to create a sonic landscape. I like to create ambiance and atmosphere. The writing is the intimate part of it. It is a sketch. The production is the whole painting.

  Keren Ann

  Song, Jobs, Writing

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• It is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to encourage consumption.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Government, Aim, Consumption

  Jean Baptiste Say, Clement Cornell Biddle (1851). “A treatise on political economy”, p.139

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• A simple equation for the production of successful art work is lots of reference material plus lots of art supplies equals lots of painting happiness.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Successful, Simple

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• Today any successful and competent businessman will employ the latest and best-tested methods in production, distribution, and administration. Many are discovering that one of the greatest of all efficiency methods is prayer power.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Prayer, Successful, Today

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• Honest hearts produce honest actions.

  Brigham Young

  Honesty, Heart, Ethics

  Brigham Young (1858). “Journal of Discourses”

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• Born of necessity, the little fellow literally freed us of immediate worry. He provided the means for expanding our organization to its present dimensions and for extending the medium of cartoon animation toward new entertainment levels. He spelled production liberation for us.

  Walt Disney

  Mean, Disney Animation, Organization

  "A Walt Disney World Resort Outing : The Only Vacation Planning Guide Exclusively for Gay and Lesbian Travelers". Book by Dann Hazel and Josh Fippen, 2002.

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• The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life. It is understandable that I should have sentimental attachment for the little personage who played so big a part in the course of Disney Productions and has been so happily accepted as an amusing friend wherever films are shown around the world. He still speaks for me and I still speak for him.

  Walt Disney

  Attachment, Should Have, World

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• The establishment of the National Park Service is justified by considerations of good administration, of the value of natural beauty as a National asset, and of the effectiveness of outdoor life and recreation in the production of good citizenship.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Effectiveness, National Parks, Administration

  Theodore Roosevelt (2010). “The Green Roosevelt: Theodore Roosevelt in Appreciation of Wilderness, Wildlife, and Wild Places”, p.300, Cambria Press

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• If all the time consumed in attending dinners and luncheons was consumed in some work, the production of this country would be doubled

  Will Rogers

  Country, Work, Would Be

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• Most of the producers I work with are decent mixers. We'll wind up in these spots where I'll get the mix back and I'll put a few more pieces of production together and send it back to the mixer. It's so easy to change the entire perspective of the song by changing the mix.

  Yukimi Nagano

  Song, Wind, Perspective

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've had production offers with artists I really admire, and oftentimes that doesn't work out. Sometimes it does, but... For instance I was asked if I wanted to do a Talking Heads album back in the late '70s, early '80s, and I was already working on a different project and didn't have time, so I never got the opportunity to work with them.

  Todd Rundgren

  Artist, Opportunity, Talking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The normal Hollywood approach is to have a super-charged production company and then go to the studios for distribution and marketing.

  Robert Simonds

  Marketing, Hollywood, Normal

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• The only way I think about kids in production is practically, the younger the kids are the harder it is to shot the movie.

  Jason Blum

  Kids, Thinking, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• Our cells engage in protein production, and many of those proteins are enzymes responsible for the chemistry of life.

  Randy Schekman

  Cells, Enzymes, Chemistry

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• When I've produced a song, I try to record a vocal over it, and sometimes it becomes really hard. Sometimes I've already said a lot that I want to say within the production. The vocal is just adding to it, rather than it being a song.

  Sampha

  Song, Trying, Records

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• Most new things are not good, and die an early death; but those which push themselves forward and by slow degrees force themselves on the attention of mankind are the unconscious productions of human wisdom, and must have honest consideration, and must not be made the subject of unreasoning prejudice.

  Bill Vaughan

  Innovation, Degrees, Prejudice

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• The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions and ideas become, after voluntary communication to others, free as the air to common use.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Communication, Air, Law

  "International News Service v. Associated Press". Dissenting opinion, 1918.

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