Quotes About Deadline

They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.

In television you don't have a lot of time to spend with the role or the script. Typically you get a script a week prior to shooting. Sometimes it's even less time, not enough time to dream about the role.

Cooking involves a deadline and hungry people and ingredients that expire in a week. It's stressful. Cooking happens on the stove and on the clock. Baking happens with ingredients that last for months and come to life inside a warm oven. Baking is slow and leisurely.

I once set myself a deadline: half a chapter a week, 20 minutes a day. The thought froze me instantly, like literary Botox. I returned to my non-schedule: sleeping, writing 20 minutes, and then back to sleep. Breakfast in bed, with juice congealing on the sill: pages and pages began to pour out again.

So when 'Skatetown' came up at Columbia and Ray Stark's studio, the idea was to do it quick. They wanted it out in the fall, and they gave me the treatment on July 4th weekend! I wrote it in four days, and, you know, it kind of looks like it.

If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!

It's a good thing I work well under pressure.

An application called Deadline goes a step further, informing you how many years of life you have left, given your current habits.

It's about time. We don't have all day, you know.

When will I make it by?

Here's the deal,' Raylan said. 'I'm giving you twenty-four hours to get out of this county and never come back.' Raylan looked at his watch. 'That means you have until … two-fifteen tomorrow afternoon to clear out. If I see you're still around after that, I won't hesitate to shoot you on sight. You have any questions?

The Zip was quiet, maybe trying to guess what was in Raylan's mind. He seemed curious. Finally he said, Okay, what do you want to tell me? Here's the deal, Raylan said. I'm giving you twenty-four hours to get out of this county and never come back. Raylan looked at his watch. That means you have until...two-fifteen tomorrow afternoon to clear out. If I see you're still around after that, I won't hesitate to shoot you on sight. You have any questions?

but i am content to live in the moment, and allow myself the daily pleasure of obsessing. nothing lasts forever, i tell myself. especially the good stuff. although typically you aren't faced with a hard deadline

Zevenenhalf uur om de wereld te redden. Is er niet een of andere wet die zegt dat we minstens vierentwintig uur de tijd krijgen? - Holly

Seven and a half hours to save the world. Isn't there some law that says we get at least twenty-four?

ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.

In Asia, it is very hectic - there is no overtime, no holidays, no weekends. It's pretty rushed because they are trying to cut the deadline.

I write on weekends, on vacation, and, really - on deadline and on my floor. Both terrible for the back.

Weekly, monthly, or whatever, I'm just not good with being told I have to finish up according to a set schedule.

Now I'm instantly nervous about the demands of doing a weekly column.

The hardest thing about being a manga-ka is that it's a weekly thing.

Of the 60 movies I wrote, more than half were written in two weeks or less.

Usually, you can shoot a movie in 10 or 12 weeks.

The short film project I just finished for W Hotels and Intel, I didn't have my script finished until a few days before we began filming. We edited it very quickly and now it's up online. It was great to conceive an idea and have it premiere just a few weeks later, compared to a feature, which takes a year or more.