Production Designer Quotes

#1. In a lot of cases, you think that the art director and the production designer designed and built this amazing set, when in fact they only built part of it and were able to extend it using all of this fabulous technology.

Rick Heinrichs

#2. When I was 23, I went to work for Jack Nicholson reading scripts. Later, I was married to a production designer named Richard Sylbert. So I lived in Los Angeles for ten years.

Susanna Moore

#3. On the speech day, the production designer, who has a lot of say in things, and sometimes I didn't agree with him but I had to do what I was told, wanted the speech day to be all in neutral colours for the women, which was a good thing.

Julie Harris

#4. Phillip Harrison was the production designer, though, I think he's uncredited. He's done most of my films like Blue Thunder. Lots and lots over the years.

John Badham

#5. When I was in pre-production for Trees Lounge, I was hearing the cinematographer talking with the production designer about colours and this and that, and feeling like I was losing control.

Steve Buscemi

#6. 'Little Princess' was the first big movie that I did in America with big stages where we had kind of a different schedule to work. We had a great production designer, Bo Welch, and we had time to think about the movie in pre-production.

Emmanuel Lubezki

#7. To make good films, you have to have a good relationship and good collaboration as composer-director, composer-editor, composer-production designer-actor because you're working with the actors on screen.

Howard Shore

#8. Any time you talk about the look of the film, it's not just the director and the director of photography. You have to include the costume designer and the production designer.

Spike Lee

#9. In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer.

Fede Alvarez

#10. The hiring of Phil Messina, the production designer, was a big decision. He's so gifted, and his ideas were always so smart and rooted in American history and architecture. Nothing feels like it's not us, or couldn't be us, and I think that's very important.

Nina Jacobson

#11. For an artist, there's nothing better than having the opportunity to create a world that doesn't- but could- exist.

Christophe Lautrette

#12. It is not enough to have a talented designer; the management must be inspired too. The creative process is very disorganised; the production process has to be very rational.

Bernard Arnault

#13. Self-abuse is shockingly common, especially among people who have been conditioned to believe that they are to blame when things go wrong.

Anna J. Michener

#14. Each individual garment has its own customizations based on a collaboration between us and the designer. We say what we think our woman wants, and they say, 'This is what we think we can do with our production.'

Aslaug Magnusdottir

#15. The rules are very strict...

Mary Downing Hahn

#16. I used to think my job as a CEO meant managing metrics and meeting goals, but I've realised now that's it's about managing my board and employees.

Leila Janah

#17. 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

#18. There are proven ways to win the loyalty of tough, strong, ferocious men: play on the certain knowledge of their superiority, the mystique of secret covenant, the esprit of shared suffering.

Frank Herbert

#19. Hell of a thing when a man's hatred for another is greater than his love for his grandchild.

Lorraine Heath

#20. The moment we definitely commit ourselves, Providence moves, too.

W. H. Murray

#21. A designer must always think about the unfortunate production engineer who will have to manufacture what you have designed; try to understand his problems.

Raymond Loewy

#22. The designer must understand that form does not follow function nor does form follow a production process. For every use and for every production process there are innumerable equally attractive solutions.

Eva Zeisel