Quotes About Time

Actors are sellers, and I figured out a long time ago that if you wanted to work a lot, you had to be on the buying side.

I figured I'd coach two or three years at the most and go back and be an attorney.

I only do what I love, when I love, how I love to fill up the time.

It may never happen, but I'd love to make a movie and not be rushed or concerned about shooting too much film. Probably a fantasy, but it would be nice. It would also be cool to fill a movie with all my favorite songs, but music is so damn expensive. We can't all be Cameron Crowe.

You can fill up your time with anything that you want. And stuff per se is not bad - technology is awesome; if you use it for the right the reason, it's great.

I don't think it matters how fast you write. It's how long you thought about it. I like to think of it as a well filling up. I think about it until the well is full, and then I let go.

In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behaviour and we sculpt light.

When you're working on film music, you're only working on 20, 30-minute sections at a time.

'Lord of the Rings' was going on; like, my college years were the years of 'Lord of the Rings,' an awesome time to be in film school.

'America' took at least five days of actual filming.

We shot 'Lucas' in 42 days; that's a lot of filming.

Filming '24' is just like watching '24.'

To be home for story time is brilliant. Even if after 14 hours of filming you're exhausted and just want to fall into bed.

Look, people have been filming fights since the beginning of time.

You have to spend four hours filming a 30-minute program. That seems mental to me.

Eleven years in films is a long time.

In the final analysis, it is your decision to make, but it doesn't move as fast as I'd like it to move.

Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about them.

I've finally become an old guy.

Getting finance together can take a while.

I can't help but think what would have happened if a divisive character such as Trump were president during the 2008 financial crisis, at a time when leadership, compromise, and careful analysis were critical.

It's hard to convince your agents and managers to do theater, because it's not as financially rewarding and it takes up a lot of time.

I actually moved my address back to the U.K. because I'm spending half my time there anyway and financially it's better to be based over there.

It often takes a couple of years to get a script right and then takes a couple of years to get financing together.