Small-Scale Production Quotes

Everywhere I go, I always look for creative entrepreneurs, whether it's artisans and craftsmen, small farmers and gardeners, or restaurateurs who use fresh, locally sourced ingredients.

When I see Lemlem walking around New York City, it's just mind-boggling, because I know it came from this one man sitting and weaving this little product.

Khaddar does not displace a single cottage industry.

I feel the same way about makeup that I do about food - I don't want the big companies to give me my food. I want the niche mom and pops who care about their food making it. I don't want the Kraft cheese, I want the niche cheese.

Occasionally I'll be a producer for hire on a larger budget movie, but with Blumhouse Pictures, we mainly focus on micro-budget, under-$5-million-dollar movies. That's what we're in business to do, and that's what we're in business to make.

I've never done a big studio film, I've only ever done little ones.

John is a cottage industry in Baltimore and the city opens its doors for him whenever he is making a new film.

I enjoy smaller projects, especially by newcomers, where there is more energy than on bigger productions. And there's the pleasure of seeing the final result.

What makes a good deli is a place that, one, is generally family-owned or owned by individuals that care. Delis that are owned by large corporations tend not to have that same soul. And two, delis that make as much of their food from scratch as possible.

I'd like to get something small and self-generated in before Black Rock has whatever life that it has.

If you're making a smaller movie, you're almost obligated to do something unexpected and surprising.

The nice part about not being a huge film is that you get to goof around a bit more.

I'm just a simple television and film producer who started off from her garage and whose only idea was to tell a story.

I wanted to start something in New York that focused on making products locally, and because I'd just had my second child didn't want to be traveling halfway across the world anymore. The idea was to have something wearable that fit with my reality, which was being a mom with two young kids and not always wanting to wear jeans. I still wanted to wear interesting clothes, and the options out there I found were either very expensive or very cheap. There was a big gap in the middle.

You can take a handful of dollars, a good story, and people with passion and make a movie that will stand up against any $70 million movie.

Start in a small TV station so you can make all of your embarrassing mistakes early and in front of fewer people!

I wanted to do plays. But then I got out of school and started getting jobs in movies and TV. And I seemed more suited to that. I like the intimacy of working for the camera, the size of performance it requires. I love getting into tiny moments.

I never had any urge or desire to do like a big spectacular movie with thousands and thousands of extras. I'd rather watch paint drying. But put me in a room with three people having a hard time, like a character situation, and then you're into a really intense portraiture kind of concept.

The simple, sweet films without the star power often manage to tell a better story.

Design and the urgency to preserve it - not as a museum relic, as a living experience. And for me, something that lives alongside mass-produced goods. I'm not saying get away from it. My battle is there is a marketplace for what people wear and what they eat and care about how things are made and not just that they were made, and that's the core focus. I know where things come from, I know their families. I do that throughout my life - I know who makes my suits, and I know where my eggs come from. Everyone and everything is accounted for and has accountability.

I buy the best fabrics from small mills in Italy. That is the basis for my clothes.

We need to confront honestly the issue of scale... You may need a large corporation to run an airline or to manufacture cars, but you don't need a large corporation to raise a chicken or a hog. You don't need a large corporation to process local food or local timber and market it locally.

If hand-spinning is an effective method of making India self-supporting, it must be made part of the franchise.