Quotes About Time

People don't always understand the way it works with casting. TV projects tend to be commissioned to screen at a particular time of year, so your shooting dates are chosen to meet that. And then the casting is a matter of choosing from the actors who are available for those dates.

I want to spend more time with my two daughters.

I had the biggest dry-cleaning bill on 'Daybreak' because I was always on the run and spilling coffee on myself.

You can spend your time daydreaming or make use of it in other ways.

I don't really have long days very often.

Eternity is not something that begins after you're dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.

We are always rushing to an appointment or trying to meet a deadline.

There's no deadline that a movie has to be made by. We have to believe that we have served the responsibility, however long it takes us to get to that point.

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.

But I have the most incredible support system in the world. They let me have those times when I just want to cry. But I give myself a deadline and say, today's my sad day but tomorrow when the sun comes up it's done.

'Senna' took five years, 'Amy' took three years. You try and say, 'Look, there's no deadline.' That's important. Just saying, 'We've got to make the film. And once the film's ready, it will be out there.'

Deadlines are meant to be broken. And I just keep breaking them.

Deadlines concentrate the mind. But deadlines should not be dogmas.

I'm not that guy that blows deadlines anymore.

It usually takes about a year to write each book. I don't plan it that way. I don't set deadlines. If a book wants to take longer, it can.

Television is all about deadlines.

Personally I find that deadlines are the best inspiration.

Most of us, I think, are conscious of history swirling around outside the door, but when we're in the house, we're usually not dealing with history. We're not thinking about history.

You've got to close deals quickly, or else you'll miss out.

I've been doing stuff for ABC for a long time, since 2004. I've had several deals with them. Like, 'Life on Mars,' that was a large event for me in my career.

I grew up reading Proust all my life, and he's very dear to me.

When you want something very dearly, you make the time.

In the long run we are all dead.