Planning Phase Quotes

You don't want to be starting a film not knowing what you want to do.

You can't start a product simply by building it. You have to know why you're building it, and you might go down the wrong rabbit hole, waste time, and confuse things. Spending long afternoons with a sketchbook or talking through your ideas with other people can save a year in software development later on.

I have a tendency to postpone starting a piece until it's kicked around in my head a little bit.

I think now I'll probably take a few days off and enjoy the competition and then sit down with a few people and work out what is next, work out what the next preparation will be and what competition will be next.

In ten episodes, we were able to do our writers' room first. We did that all summer and wrote for 15 weeks and got everything in really good shape.

The true start-up of a business is what happens before you start-up.

Most of my work is done before we start shooting, preparation work, so my normal day begins when I start writing, it might even be the night before.

Few moments are more pleasing than those in which the mind is concerting measures for a new undertaking.