Quotes About Deadline

It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.

If you send out one coupon with a deadline of a week and another that must be used within the next month, you end up having more redemptions with the one week deadline. It's really amazing. With the month deadline you have four times as much time, but people tend to say they'll use it in a few weeks' time and then they don't do it.

The post-war American newsroom resembled a vast factory churning out multiple editions through the night. Reporters spent days, sometimes weeks, on a single story.

That's the thing about 'The Daily Show' - we're doing four shows a week, so we can't be too precious about what's going on.

There's just such a premium on hurrying, and the camera is the be all and end all, and the actors had better hurry up and get it right and get it done.

It's hard to prep a movie in five days and shoot it in five days and cut it in barely any time. You don't get quite enough time to make the thing, let alone tell the story.

With TV, you don't get much time to prepare. It's all done that day itself, on the set. Shoot, and leave.

I mean, I can get things done if I need to, but I can really be completely irresponsible and procrastinate until the very, very, very bitter end. In fact, sometimes I work better under pressure.

For Scary Movie 2, we had a due date and had to work fast. And though there's a lot of pressure, as artists, we just block it out. So really, the pressure comes from us. That's how the first movie happened. There was no outside pressure: we wanted to hit the audience hard.

We worked under a lot of pressure... three days to do an episode, sometimes two in a week, 39 episodes a year.

Every field has its pressures and stress factors.

The best thing for my creative process is a deadline.

If I'm right in the middle of a deadline, I'm up really early.

Now I know that I should take better care of myself when I'm under an intense deadline, or else my body is gonna act in certain ways that are not good.

The needs of the nation are not necessarily convergent with the needs of the deadline satirist.

I love a daily deadline.

Usually composers need a reason to write. I need a deadline.

I was 20 years old and I said, 'Okay, if I can't get on TV by 25 then I'll consider another career.' You have to give yourself these arbitrary deadlines just to keep yourself focused and on track.

I didn't decide on what college I was going to go to until the day I had to.

I didn't really want deadlines and editorial work. I wanted something mechanical and eight hours a day. So I went to work, thinking it was easy - ha, ha - on the complaint desk at the circulation department.

All writers are forced to live within deadlines, and deadlines determine how good they can be.

At SBI, we say that if you need a project to be done, you need to be determined that it needs to be done, put a deadline, and it will get done.

Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

Stress is part of life. It is something we all experience from time to time. Sometimes it reflects our own busy lifestyles or key moments such as exams, moving house, organising an event, or coping with a bereavement. Often it is associated with work: meeting a deadline, dealing with difficult people, or meeting stretching targets.