Mac DeMarco Quotes

The box got bigger, the outside, the buildings. And all that we were doing. I had to raise about $1 million every two days just to stay alive.

Humans all want to beat the clock but nobody ever does.

Money costs too much.

Even on a $100 million film, people will complain that they haven't got enough money and enough time, so that's always going to be an element in filmmaking.

We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money.

I've had one or two personal trainers at different times - and it's expensive, first of all - but they always make me feel uncomfortable because they're jocks who just yell at you.

I just go into the studio, look at the lyrics for the first time when I put them on the piano, and go. If I haven't got it within 40 minutes, I give up. It's never changed, the thrill has never gone, because I don't know what I'm going to get next.

Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.

We all deal with issues of time. The first thing you do in the morning is look at the clock to see what time it is.

There's no sense talking about priorities. Priorities reveal themselves. We're all transparent against the face of the clock.

Before I won 'American Idol,' I'd never been in a professional studio at all. I'm getting more used to it. I'm really weird, though: I sing way better in a crowd of 3,000. It's easier than singing in front of 2.

The sheriff is at the cash register, and if I don't get a hit soon, I don't know what I'll do.

Money often costs too much.

If you botch a handoff or stutter step in a relay, then your team has to make up that lost time. It's always you versus the clock.

There are artists that actually don't like going into the studio. They get mad when people say they've got a session. I'm just the opposite. I actually enjoy it.

We honestly felt a bit more at home in the TV studio than we did in the recording studio.

I hate studios; I'll be honest with you. People get weird in the studio. I've had some great and terrible times with people. People's personalities come out in the worst way.

Biological clock? I don't even own a watch.

My life had become an endless race against the clock. I was always in a hurry, scrambling to save a minute here, a few seconds there. My wake-up call came when I found myself toying with the idea of buying a collection of One-Minute Bedtime Stories Snow White in 60 seconds. Suddenly it hit me: my rushaholism has got so out of hand that I'm even willing to speed up those precious moments with my children at the end of the day. There has to be a better way, I thought, because living in fast forward is not really living at all. That's why I began investigating the possibility of slowing down.

Lovers ever run before the clock

The problem is that people basically dangle debt in front of us. And the cost for the poor of course is much higher than for the wealthy.

The worst enemy of the strategist is the clock. Time trouble... Reduces us all to pure reflex and reaction, tactical play. Emotion and instinct cloud our strategic vision when there is no time for proper evaluation.

It's not five minutes to midnight. It's five minutes after midnight.

we are slaves to the cost of living.

A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.