Meticulous Planning Quotes

Leave as little to chance as possible. Preparation is the key to success.

It takes a lot of un-spectacular preparation, to get spectacular results

I did everything by the numbers. I had checklists upon checklists. If I wasn't ahead of everybody on my team, I didn't feel I was doing my job.

I'm very deliberate and I love Excel spreadsheets and I love five-year plans and all that. So it felt really fun to play someone so incredibly different from myself.

You can't show up on set and expect it all to come together. You have to have a plan, much like how the director can't just show up and go, well, where should I put the camera? That is gonna determine how it is lit, you should have already been in the room looking at it earlier, pre-lit the room, you know there is a lot of prep that goes into it, so it is the same thing with acting. You can't just show up.

I'm a control freak with regards to certain aspects. I think you just have to be when you're making stuff in the world. You have to have a clear idea what you want.

When you see me do a five-minute thing, there's been about two years of preparation behind that. You know, I find that's what it takes to really make it the level of quality I prefer.

[Stanley] Kubrick was a great artist and a perfectionist. He always wanted the exact right thing. He did a million takes. Everything had to be perfect. I'm an imperfectionist. I don't really care that much about the work. I write quickly. I'm careless. I shoot carelessly.

Once you are prepared and you think you have every angle of preparation covered, you have to go for it.

I'm up to my hairline in planning. It's a lot, especially when you're a woman of detail.

If I had my way, we'd rehearse things to death.

A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.

I have to stop and think about everything I do. I'm very calculated in a lot of ways.

To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plan minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed... There is nothing sweeter in the world.

Whoever wants to accomplish great things must devote to a lot of profound thought to details.

I don't think people understand how much hard work innovation is. That it's not just getting an idea. You really have to cross your T's and dot your I's long before you ever start on the project. I don't think people perceive that about me. I work hard.

I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it.

It's true, spectacular preparation always precedes spectacular performance.

I've always admired people who are over-prepared.

He was the most deliberate person in the world, yet always reached his destination at the exact moment. As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme. Around the world in eighty days

These characters are not spontaneous creations. They are engineered down to the last nut and bolt.

Every prop, every shot, every pearl that rolled across the floor was exactly how I wanted it to be.

People who take more than 2 weeks to plan a wedding are pussies

Am I a control freak? No. Do I believe in organization? You bet. In discipline? In being on time and making sure everything at the hotel is ready and right? Definitely. I don't control players. I try to control the environment around the players so they can flourish.