Quotes About Efficiency

There should be an app or service that comes and packs your bag for you so you don't have to do it. A real-life Siri.

You have to pack as much as you can in an hour or 70 minutes. This time around it was 15 songs, so it was a challenge to get them all the right length so you could get them all on.

I pack every minute I can with something to do.

Pack lightly. If I'm anywhere a week or less, I carry on. I can fit everything I need in one small bag! And I pack small, mini liquids so TSA doesn't make me throw anything out.

I travel as light as possible and usually pack in less than a minute. If I'm going somewhere hot, I throw in some flip-flops, T-shirts and shorts - but I still pack clothes that I never use.

For me, it's about taking things that do not take a lot of space. Don't take a lot of shoes. I tend to pack a lot of dresses, for instance, because they take up less space.

And I think that, given the opportunity, somebody could really learn a lot just being around me and the girls because it's really nonstop, 24/7 brainstorming and creativity and just trying to get organized and really pack a lot into a day - being there nonstop with all engines blazing.

Packing is always a nightmare.

When I think about the books I've written, it probably takes 150,000-200,000 words to get a 50,000 page book. Highlighting something and hitting Cmd-X is second nature.

If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.

A lot of feature films do two pages a day.

I only read the left-hand pages, so I finish books twice as fast.

You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.

We have telemedicine where, if you come into our office, you can go downstairs, and there's a machine there and a nurse there, and you talk to a doctor who works from a clinic down the street. It's just going to make a great health care system in the long run. We just have a lot of pains go through.

To be able to finish opportunities that I do get in the paint, that makes a difference.

I was always trying to get in the paint and get the easiest shots I can.

When I'm in the game, in the paint, I try to use my height and help the team.

I use the computer as a paintbrush. It enables me to do in hours what would have taken months.

One time, I was going to be in L.A. for 10 days for a business conference, and I took eight different pairs of sandals.

I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens.

I stay in my pajamas until I have to leave for work.

When done right, sheet pan dinners are a dream come true: Your whole dinner goes into the oven on one pan and comes out ready to eat. But it takes a little finesse and a few rules to get everything done right.

Put all the menus and TV guides and magazines and local info papers in the drawers. I hate clutter!

I still manage to spend around 40 hours a week at work but it is a lot more focused on what can make money as opposed to what makes me look good in the papers.