Industrial Setting Quotes

The golf links lie so near the mill That almost every day The laboring children can look out And see the men at play.

I want to make a film about a factory worker.

Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads.

One of the workshop participants had shown me a single 8 X 10 photograph of a power plant where he actually was the general manager of this power cooperative. It was quite magical to me.

The locomotives are black. The coal is black. The tracks are black. The night is black. So what am I going to do with color?

Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works.

The next movement is still in the factory.

It is essential that the worker in industry should have the status of an individual and not a mere cog in a soulless machine.

I grew up listening to my dad, a miner who rose through the ranks to be the mine superintendent in Coalwood, W.V., yelling orders into his black company phone. He wanted to get coal out of the ground and into coal cars and on its way to steel mills.

My father was an engineer working for a textile company that had several factories scattered in rural towns in the southern part of Japan.

I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes.

I did go to one of the chocolate factories in the U.K. It was disappointing. Not at all magical! And I thought, 'What a dull place to work.'

We have to dedicate our efforts to better the life, the time passed by the worker in the industrial plant. That will be one of our main efforts during the next year.

I grew up in a factory town - Urbana, Ohio.

The scene fascinated me: a round straw hat; the funnel leaning left, the stairway leaning right; the white drawbridge, its railings made of chain; white suspenders crossed on the back of a man below; circular iron machinery; a mast that cut into the sky, completing a triangle.

The blue collar milieu was something that I really understood and resonated with me and I thought was underrepresented in American cinema.

It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables.

I would rather sit in a factory than sit in a Maybach.

I worked in a paper mill all my adult life and there were a lot of funny guys there. So you pick up on that. Even though something really bad might have happened to somebody you can still make a joke out of it.

For 'King Cole's American Salvage,' I rode around in the wrecker with a local driver and watched him deal with customers and hook up the cars. I watched the guy who tore apart the cars in the junkyard. I also wrote poems about those guys. I loved hanging around the yard.