Creative Speed Quotes

You can make a hit song in 15 minutes. I don't know about someone else's song, but songs that people like of mine, I've created in 15 minutes or less.

When I did 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', I had the idea on Monday and the following Tuesday it was in budget at Paramount. I couldn't walk.

I actually wrote the lyrics for 'Goodbye' in 10 minutes.

'Chandelier' took, like, four minutes to write the chords, then, like, 12-15 minutes to write the lyrics. Probably 10 or 15 minutes to cut the vocals.

I can write a poem in 10 minutes. I like writing songs; I can write songs in 5 or 10 minutes. My concentration seems very short.

'Coming Over' was probably the fastest collaboration I've ever done.

I like working really fast. The best ideas are the first ones that come into your head - so why bother thinking of any more?

I think in most cases, if you're with good people, comedy creation happens faster in collaboration. That's how I can tell if it's a good collaboration: If it's faster than me by myself, then it works. If it's slower than me by myself, then I get out of the room.

Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think.

If you are not skillful enough to sketch a man jumping out of a window in the time it takes him to fall from the fourth storey to the ground, you will never be able to produce great works.

I can design a collection in a day and I always do, cause I've always got a load of Italians on my back, moaning that it's late.

'The Way of the Gun' I wrote in five days.

So where a lot of people will spend three weeks on one song, I will write 10 in three weeks. Maybe the song that they sculpt is going to be as successful as just one of the 10 that I wrote.

I like the energy of doing things fast. We shot 'Starred Up' in just four weeks, and we edited it in four weeks.

If I'm going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average.