Production Management Quotes

I think my own strengths are in television production.

What's crucial about being an executive producer is that you stay in the loop, information-wise. They have to share all their major decisions with you.

Ultimately, I want to direct a movie, so that's another thing, too, where I wonder what that will look like and how will I be able to manage.

Let me tell you about being executive producer. It is not a job, it's a title. Don't go around asking executive producers what they do because they don't do anything, alright?

Society is best served when the means of production are in the possession of those who know how to use them best.

I never want to be the producer that I too often got.

A lot of producers now are people who stay in their office and never go to the set. I don't know how you can be the advocate of the movie if you're not there in it every day.

I'm producing more, but I think to direct, one has to have a burning desire, and that's not me. I'd rather do something else.

WWE had years to develop and train their staff. WWE makes sure the production team got exactly what Vince McMahon was looking for and how he wanted it.

Directing is such alchemy, it's so easy to fail. And I've seen people who are great at their jobs because everybody has a go. Editors, DPs, actors, craft services guy, everybody wants to try it out but it is such a diffuse but necessary set of skills that you never know which one this person might lack.

The main task of Socialism - the organization of Socialist production - remains still in the future.

I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots.

I got an office where I just go and put together shows, you know.

People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.

There has been a tremendous growth in the entertainment industry throughout Atlanta. There are many opportunities in film, television and theatre.

Any great director is also someone who is incredibly intelligent about whom they hire around them.

I didn't come in as a writer that found producers, I came in under producers. So I've always respected the actual production process and producers in general.

On the set, I'm a businessman.

I can see myself doing production work and handling projects behind the scenes.

We must firmly grasp management. Just making things isn't enough. We need to raise the quality.

Sometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me.

I love being on set, because I've basically grown up on a set. And now I love to contribute as a director and help steer the ship, if you will.

As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers.

I've been in various roles in TV - writer, producer, associate director.

I don't really understand why everybody doesn't want to direct. It's an absolutely fascinating combination of skills required and puzzles set on every possible level, emotional and practical and technical. It calls upon such a wide variety of skills. I find it completely absorbing.