Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.

The remedy [for the Great Depression] is to give the workers access to the means of production, and let them produce for themselves, not for others… the American way.

Producing is about crafting narratives that echo in the minds of viewers long after the credits roll

What we do may be small, but it has a certain character of permanence and to have produced anything of the slightest permanent interest, whether it be a copy of verses or a geometrical theorem, is to have done something utterly beyond the powers of the vast majority of men.

Big productions, to me, are great – like, I love going to Vegas and seeing shows – but I think that sometimes it’s distracting, especially when you are there to listen to the music.

Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of our nation.

You often feel like you are on a high wire with no net productions because you have to rely on spontaneity and come up with ideas on the spur of the moment – and then what happens is that there is electricity to it that gets caught.

The oranges, it is true, are not all exactly of the same size, but careful machinery sorts them so that automatically all those in one box are exactly similar. They travel along with suitable things being done to them by suitable machines at suitable points until they enter a suitable refrigerator car in which they travel to a suitable market. The machine stamps the word “Sunkist” upon them, but otherwise there is nothing to suggest that nature has any part in their production.

Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.