Quotes About Time

It took me six years to get close to Picasso. I learnt a lot from him, and he was an absolute genius. He almost became my grandfather at the time. It was like he was a magician or something.

I doubt Picasso ever painted a picture in an hour, he took his time, looked at every detail and made sure it was perfect.

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

I'm usually done with work around 11am, so I have time before I pick the kids up from school.

In a film you only get two hours to do this big arc and so you have to pick and choose your moments carefully, but with television you get to take your time and just take it episode by episode and discover new things.

I've been musically inclined since I picked up an instrument in the fourth grade. I just really appreciate music. I love to listen to it; I love to sing. I wouldn't consider myself, like, a natural singer. I just developed it over time, honestly, just listening. I'm a great listener to music.

Things are forgotten and then perhaps picked up again, if we're lucky, it lasts... if not, then it's in the lap of the gods. The important thing was to do some work that I liked and hopefully that some others might also like, whether for a minute, a week, a month, a year.

Life is simply too short to think about everything you put in your mouth, and it's not good for children to see you picking over bits of salad.

Some days my husband Derek and I barely have time for a conversation about anything apart from the business of life - who's picking up who and who's cooking dinner.

I don't like to leave my children for long periods of time. It's made me more picky about roles that are close, especially on television.

Atmosphere on the sets of 'YHM' is absolutely brilliant. It's kind of picnic always, and we have a gala time shooting together.

Everybody accuses me of moving fast when I direct a picture. I don't move fast, but I just keep moving.

You picture yourself as being 22 always, and so it's very bizarre when you're not.

I wanted to make pictures where you would not know who took them. I also bring the present into the past.

Time is running out to permeate the piece.

Certainly it's very difficult to keep momentum going through a film which has as many characters as this does, and the piece took on a life of its own to try and shape it. That took all the time we had in editing.

It's deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

Yes, my works... are enshrined in museums, but I don't care if the pieces fall apart in 20 years.

Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.

It is the little things that pierce and burn and prick for years to come.

Some of the routines take less than 10 minutes, making Pilates the perfect form of exercise for anyone who finds there's not enough time in the day for exercise.

I am born every day and make my debut every day. Others pile on the years.

I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.

I think with beauty there is so much to be done. A pill that will give you everlasting youth. To choose the exact age you want to stay at from a hundred pill bottles? That would be fun.