#production

Consider this: when you stand at the entry to a steel factory, you can make out through the smoke some men, some metal, the fires. The furnaces roar, the hammers crash; and the metalworkers who forge ingots, weapons, tools, and so on are completely ignorant of the real uses to which their products will be put. The workers can only refer to their products by conventional names. Well, that's where we all stand, all of us! Nobody can see the real character of what he creates because every knife blade may become a dagger, and the use to which an object is put changes both its name and its nature. Only our ignorance shields us from terrible responsibilities. ↗

— Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

#knife #production #change

Yes, but nomes aren’t hard to make,” said Dorcas. “You just need other nomes.” “You’re weird. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#life #reproduction #life

The loss of quality that is so evident at every level of spectacular language, from the objects it glorifies to the behavior it regulates, stems from the basic nature of a production system that shuns reality. The commodity form reduces everything to quantitative equivalence. The quantitative is what it develops, and it can develop only within the quantitative. ↗

— Guy Debord

#commodity-production #culture #modernity #the-last-man #nature

One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#creation #image #itself #procreation #reproduction

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

#collaboration #color #first #had #house

There's editing, and scripts to read and edit, and casting, and all the elements of production that just sort of take up the normal downtime that you would have as an actor. So there's not a lot of that for me. ↗

— Richard Dean Anderson

#casting #downtime #edit #editing #elements

My way of remaining French was the financing scheme I used for Quest for Fire, with Fox funds, since it started as a 100% American production. The film was not in French and yet was French in style, reflecting my personality. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

#film #financing #fire #fox #french

As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#comes #defect #defective #individual #likeness

Most artists have contracts directly with the record company, and when they do music, all of their music is owned by the record company. But I did mine through a production company. ↗

— Roy Ayers

#company #contracts #did #directly #i

I was very much in my room with my marionette stage, you know, creating these incredibly boring things that I felt were so fascinating, and forcing my relatives to come, and charging money for them to see my little productions. ↗

— Bob Balaban

#boring things #charging #come #creating #fascinating