Quotes About Time

When you're shooting a movie, it's two months of your life usually. You don't really have time to see anybody else. Your friends are put on hold while you're shooting, and what you have is the family that you create on set.

From 2005 to 2010, I was exclusively shooting 'The Act of Killing' and then editing it.

A movie shoots six months for two hours of film.

There's a lot of research and time that goes into my shoots. I spend weeks on them, even for one picture.

I hate shopping. I don't go shopping. If I do, I run in and out.

Life is short and so am I.

Life is too short, and I need to eat. I am my meanest when I haven't had a meal.

I've learned that I really want to shoot short films on a short schedule. There can be very good films that run 110 minutes, but 90 minutes is beautiful.

Believe me, I go and go, 'cause I know how short life is, and I know how very blessed all of us are to be here and how very short it is.

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

Problems of 35 years cannot be resolved in a short period of time.

You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.

Cease-fire is important, but it can last only for a very, very, very short time.

People want to get to know you. I don't think America got a chance to know me in that short time.

In space for a short time, I think most people could survive that. If you're sending an average person who's healthy for a short period of time, I think that's quite doable.

There are no shortcuts in evolution.

It took me a year just to edit 'Shotgun Stories.' Actually, it took me two years to edit 'Shotgun Stories.'

I can take five showers in one day.

My mom had me when she was 25, and I'm 28 now, and just to even imagine myself three years ago starting to have children and be married and have my career, it's pretty trippy, and I'm so proud and kind of in awe of her.

My wife's beautiful. We've been married for 23 years. She's awesome.

Most time capsules, when they're unearthed, are really awful. There's nothing good in them.

It's awful when everything's before your time.

I was a little ahead of him but that didn't matter after awhile.

Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile.