work pace Quotes

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion

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

A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.

In daytime, they're doing 50-60 pages a day, whereas nighttime, you do seven or eight.

I enjoy the process of TV; I like the pace of it; I like the continual work.

I do one film at a time. I can't wake up early. I can't do too many films.

Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.

In a movie, you work three months to tell a story that happens in two hours. In a Mexican soap opera, you work one day to make a story that's an hour and a half. So you can see the difference in the quality of the project.

I'm a slow worker; I'm, I think, a steady worker.

I do like working on television but I prefer film. I just want to work mainly but the pace on a movie is slower and you get to form more of a family. There is more time to work with whereas TV is faster paced.

I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Looking back now on our workload, I just shake my head at our pace. 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' was my first series, so I didn't know anything about that when I started. I just assumed it was normal to make 26 episodes a year on a seven-day shooting schedule.

Actually I'm writing as best I can, in order to keep the momentum and the career there, but I want to live.

I look at Woody Allen's prolific career of 30 or 40 films, and I'm watching the clock. I'd love to work at a clip of a film a year. We don't get the benefit of the doubt, particularly black women. We're presumed incompetent, whereas a white male is assumed competent until proven otherwise. They just think the guy in the ball hat and the T-shirt over the thermal has got it, whether he's got it or not. For buzzy first films by a white male, the trajectory is a 90-degree angle. For us, it's a 30-degree angle.

Ever since I started my career, I have been busy with four to five releases a year. I enjoy being busy.

You can't do traditional work at a modern pace. Traditional work has traditional rhythms. You need calm. You can be busy, but you must remain calm.

Films don't take as long as people think. 'Harry Potter,' people always used to say, 'Well, my God, do you ever get any time to yourself?' I think I did, in 'Harry Potter,' over a 12 year period I did five days. So it's not exactly exhausting.

I was losing sight of myself and started to get anxiety and stress. You work at such a pace and you don't have time to sit with yourself and think.

I get restless easily so I always want to keep working, but I am trying to pace it as well.

You get burned out very quickly. You can sprint 100 yards, but you cant sprint a mile, and these jobs are all sprints.

When I look at my career, the bulk of it has been television, and I love working in television. But there's a speed at which you do it. You're doing seven to ten pages a day on a series, and it's hard to feel like you're doing the detail-oriented work that I like to do.

It's really easy to finish a movie and sort of immediately dive into the next one, because I love working with actors so much and being on set, my inclination is to try to get back to that as soon as possible. There's just never much of a gap.

I know how long it takes me to draw a page, how long it takes me to complete a project, how long I can work before my hand gives out, that sort of thing.

The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.

After 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which was this big, long five-year project, I spent a year making small things.