Quotes About Efficiency

It's extremely difficult to dink and dunk all the way down the field. Defenses are just too good.

Whatever work I do, I tend to do it fast and accurately, but when it comes to fields that I don't know about well, I prefer to just listen.

Markets and science show that some fields of human endeavour work much better than political decision-making. I think we could do much much better if we will face our problems honestly.

I'm a lazy guy. I can't focus for too long. I'd rather hear a record that has no filler.

A lot of the time, excess on a film set is just damaging.

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

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

I'm not a very efficient filmmaker. There's a lot of guys, filmmakers like the Coen Brothers who shoot a whole movie and maybe don't use 12 setups. I'm in awe of people like that; I'm just not that guy.

It's been a dream to work alongside the talented team at Lucasfilm and ILM to make advancements and improvements to the filmmaking process to help tell stories more efficiently.

I'm trying to become just more clinical in every situation, whether it's the final pass, the final shot, or whatever it is.

Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.

My goal with the makeup line was that you wouldn't have to use brushes. Fingers are my favorite thing.

Just in any job, if you want to get ahead, take shorter lunch breaks, be happy to stay later, do the work, and finish it off well.

I will try to do everything to finish the fight earlier as I can. No more, no more.

I finish what I eat. I'm not a leftover guy. I mean business when I eat dinner.

I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience.

Every one tells me that I'm a pretty fast eater. I'll sit down to a dinner, and I'll finish in two minutes while everyone else will take 30 minutes.

At the end of the day I want to be the first rider across that finish line and I'll just find the quickest and easiest way to do it.

I finished my dissertation six weeks early. Who does that? As soon as something comes in, I like it to go out.

If a manager can't control his costs, fire them.

Fire people who are not workaholics.

You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.

You can fire your revenues by firing your people.

I've always thought if it's not broke, why fix it?