Quotes About Productivity

When I'm working, I always make time to get exercise into my schedule.

I am not a person of schedule when it comes to writing.

So I don't have a normal, regimented schedule at all, but on a normal day, I'd say I wake up around 10 A.M.

Well I think usually I would do six or even 10 scores a year. Some are big films and some are not.

Scoring goals is nice, but what matters are results.

The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would rather make the movies, and I'm a better moviemaker than I would be writer.

In 2007, I probably wrote four screenplays in the entire year. Every three months I was writing a screenplay.

Like everyone else, I use my phone a lot, and being a screenwriter, my laptop is my life.

I'd rather get up early and go out and do something than stay up late and screw up my body.

I take time to write my script, if I have more scripts, I will make more movies.

I watch the TV or learn scripts while on the elliptical - need to get back on it!

Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don't let anyone know it.

I actually, legitimately feel that I'm not busy enough. I want to be so busy that it's overwhelming.

I don't overwork - a couple of hours a day is fine for me.

I'm a bit of a night owl because that's when I feel the most creative and alive.

I write in the mornings or afternoons - I'm not a night owl and can write for only four or five hours maximum.

I'm a night owl; I could work until 6 in the morning without even thinking about it.

When I'm writing, which is 8-9 months out of the year, I'm in a concerted writing pace, where I work 5 days a week for at least a few hours a day, maybe a little bit more. But I won't work for more than 2 hours at a time. I'll work for a couple hours and take a break.

I really have to pace myself. I work about 75 hours a week.

I work at my own pace, and I work really well when I am not running around.

I take breaks now and then. But when I work, I get things done at a fast pace.

I would love to be able to do the pace that people used to do decades ago, where you'd make a record a year, or something was wrong with you.

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.