Quotes About Time

My favorite procrastination is to make the choice to have valuable times with human beings that I care about instead of holing myself up alone to get my work done.

Weirdly the writing experience has not really changed that much except it used to be that I was busy because I had to work a couple of jobs to earn money, so I didn't have time to write.

When you work as actors in this business, you spend a lot of time apart. That's why a lot of marriages fail. It's not because of Hollywood, it's because you don't spend time together.

Writing is difficult. It's a time commitment, it's labor and I'd have to get myself to sit down and actually do the work and outline.

I only made two studio movies, that was a long time ago and obviously I removed myself. I think some of that is geographical. I live in New York and I want to work there, it's as simple as that.

I could be working 300 hours a week. I just say no. The power of slow is the power of no. I can't go to every party I get invited to. I can't do every work thing.

I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.

Between 9am and 3pm is when I work most intensely

Work doesn't seem to interfere with my life. I have time for everything, even time to be alone.

I have a really wide range of interests and I've still got time to work out my exact direction.

Probably, if we looked at Da Vinci or Michelangelo with care, we'd see a historical particularity that the work is not treated as having. It's certainly true of Shakespeare.

You have to put work into relationships to keep them fun.

There has never been any 30-hour week for men who had anything to do.

The only part that's ever frustrating is just the deadline. If left to my own devices, I'd work for a year on something that doesn't need to be worked on for a year because I enjoy it.

I work in L.A. from time to time.

At this point in my life, I like the security of a job, while still having time for my young son and to pursue other creative work.

Maybe it takes forty years of your life to understand how the world seems to work.

I don't waste as much time at work because I'd rather spend it with my kids.

As a mother, I always have something better to be doing. I love work still, but I'm less tolerant of my time being wasted.

The best part of aging in this business is losing that obsession about work and being able to spend a little more time with family.

I've had job stability for years at a time. You really develop great relationships with the people you work with.

It takes time and energy, and if I'm working, then I'd rather flop in front of the telly than put on a tiny dress and work out how to get myself to God knows where. I mean, lazy some would call it.

The idea that because the school day is shorter or the school year is shorter than the sort of white collar workday or work year, that does not actually capture how teachers spend their time.

It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.