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I often compare putting a hotel together to old-time movie production. You come up with a story line, you hire the writer, the director, the stars, the set designer. -- Andre Balazs
To be happy, to make other people happy, to get into movie production more and probably to give some other people the chances that I had, to carry on enjoying being a mum and never to stop having flowers bought for me. I've still got a long way to go. -- Sharon Stone
There are only seven movie stars in the world whose name alone will induce American bankers to lend money for movie productions, and the only woman on the list is Ingrid Bergman. -- Cary Grant
I don't go on set with an army of people because the most expensive elements of a movie production are the plane tickets, the hotel rooms, food and gasoline. If you're willing to discover new colleagues in the place that you are, you can save a ton of money. -- Francis Ford Coppola
When the 'Fight Club' movie was going into production, I quit my job so I could write full-time. -- Chuck Palahniuk
It's the same the world over. A Hollywood production comes to town, and the locals all turn movie crazy. -- Roger Ebert
I've been in the game long enough to know what elements you have to package together to get a movie into production. -- David Ayer
There are two phases to a movie. First you shoot the movie, and then you make the movie. Generally, post-production is longer than filming. -- Keenen Ivory Wayans
I think a lot of people have a vision of L.A. in which TV executives and movie directors plan their latest productions by the swimming pool. -- Bruno Tonioli
I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one. -- Alfred Hitchcock
Production wants a miracle on every movie. They want us to do something new and amazing - but then they give you a 55-year-old actor with sciatica who doesn't want to train. -- Chad Stahelski
I had written movie scores, television series, played with other people. Carl had done the same with Asia, with other bands, everything. We weren't about to entrust Greg automatically with a production credit. -- Keith Emerson
The production team's first meeting took place at my house. I had ideas and a color scheme in mind, how I wanted the movie to look, because that has to be a real collaboration. -- Debbie Allen
G.I. Joe' is a $200 million movie. The makeup trailer was as big as my house! It was a whole other different production. It blows me away. I'm just going, 'Wow, I'm in that.' -- Marlon Wayans
With nine degrees of warming, computer models project that Australia will look like a disaster movie. Habitats for most vertebrates will vanish. Water supply to the Murray-Darling Basin will fall by half, severely curtailing food production. -- Jeff Goodell
Flying Down to Rio' established RKO as a leader in musical film production throughout the 1930s. The film helped to rescue the studio from its financial straits and it gave a real boost to my movie career. -- Ginger Rogers
Certainly in the movie business there are bullies all over - bullies in the distribution business, exhibition business, production. Fine-tuning adult bullying is different. When a bully is an adult, it's a whole different set of colors. -- Martin Kove
Jonathan Lynn is one of the last actors Orsen Welles used in a production. It was wonderful. He's very sharp, very sharp. It's funny I've been asked how weird it was to have a Brit do a church gospel movie. -- Cuba Gooding, Jr.
You could get in rehearsals, pre-production, anything that would actually contribute to the understanding of how a film gets made. I actually find those things increase people's interest in a movie and like that better than worrying about showing the tricks behind the curtain. -- Jay Roach
Despite recent speculation in the media, and after difficult but sincere consideration, I have decided not to direct 'Catching Fire.' As a writer and a director, I simply don't have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make, because of the fixed and tight production schedule. -- Gary Ross
I was so in debt by the end of 'Dust Devil,' having picked up the tab personally for the post-production of the movie, and having no way to recoup because I didn't own the rights to the movie. There was no way I could see any money back on it, so any money spent was just a dead loss. -- Richard Stanley
On 'Paranormal Activity,' it worked to my advantage not to have much of a crew, but on a bigger movie, where you have to work with a larger group of people who basically become your second family for a few months, it can be a great experience. Even though all of my projects are small scale compared to most Hollywood productions. -- Oren Peli
A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have. -- Orson Welles
What is important is to maintain integrity of the story, of the character, of the movie, even if it's a big production. -- Adam Driver
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
Well Getaway was a script that was submitted to us for production and I read it and thought it would be a cool movie to make. -- Courtney Solomon

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