Werner Herzog Quotes

In Asia, it is very hectic - there is no overtime, no holidays, no weekends. It's pretty rushed because they are trying to cut the deadline.

A daily blog would just about finish me off completely.

To me I don't deal with stress well at all, and it is stressful enough for me to deal with my own one character. So if I had to deal with all the characters and the special effects, and the editing and make the writing tweaks and do everything the director does, that would drive me to an early grave, and I just can't do it.

I'm constantly busy.

I get impatient with people working on a film that have their head in their hands like it's the most complicated thing in the world.

I'm always pretty tense about everything when it comes to work.

Creative burnout and physical burnout is real. I mean, there are moments when I get home - after overseeing, you know, almost 16 collections a year - where I can't move.

I wasn't taking drugs or drinking. I was working and working and working. But I wasn't writing anything.

I tend to get my hands into all these other things and all these distractions, and after a while I start feeling depleted.

I am busier than a whore working two beds.

… a job of infinite stress

Juggling is the word. I'm a bad juggler, and there are often balls dropped. There is no balance. The idea of work/life balance is a myth. There's teetering from one end and running to the other and hoping not to fall off.

I think the stress will kill me. I think it will be the stress.

I drove a blue and yellow Super Shuttle van for two 10-hour shifts on the weekend after a week at ACT of 10 A.M.-10 P.M. I wasn't surviving too much.

I'll cop to this: so much of doing a 22-episode show is just keeping your head above water.

I spend most of my life feeling like I've been shot out of a cannon.

The kind of work you do, when you do it, how much of it there is, and who you delegate it to are often the cause of the quasi-schizophrenic behavior seen in many business owners and entrepreneurs.

I have no time for a vacation.

I really have to pace myself. I work about 75 hours a week.

In some ways I was curt because there's an unbelievable amount to accomplish in a day.

I never think I work hard enough, as much things I have on my plate.

With respect to keeping your sanity, the more you are dedicated to your job, the more you think about it. And there is so much to think about for the director.

Sometimes my life is moving so fast that I forget what's going on. I'm just going with the pace or going with the flow. Like, I don't really stop and try to pay attention to things for too long.

I never feel like I should have any time free.

The moment you've brought a toothbrush to work, then you're getting into crunch time.