Simon Baker Quotes

I always want to read the script before I totally commit.

It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.

I've discovered that people don't actually want to have things spoiled, and they really try to avoid spoilers.

It just so happened that J.C.[Chandor] was a first-time feature director, and his script was exactly the kind of thing we were looking for.

Ever since I was little, I've felt very comfortable on a set. The time is stressful - being creative under time constraints. But there is an excitement and energy that you only have a certain amount of time to get what you want.

I know exactly what I want to write. I do not write until I do. Usually I write it all down only once. And that goes relatively quickly, since it really depends only on how fast I type.

When I first started writing, I had a very difficult time switching between projects, but now it's not only second-nature, it's indispensable: If I stall on one project, I can switch to another and stay productive.

There are two kinds of writers. There are architects and gardeners. The architects do blueprints before they drive the first nail. The gardeners just dig a hole and plant the seed and see what comes up.

When I read the scripts, I'm always so excited to see what's going to happen because it's unpredictable.

I think ultimately it's just time management. You're just doing a lot more stuff. You're doing the same stuff, you're writing and you're producing, but it just comes with a lot of other things. A lot of long term thinking and plotting things out for the future, bringing elements together. I have a lot of support.

If you do improvising, it can sometimes end up being a waste of time. And if you do that, it's more or less based on a writing process.

If you're working on something and it's not coming together, it's easy to say, "I don't want to show this, until I've figured it out." But a lot of times you don't really solve the problems, and then you start getting into a bad situation because you don't have the time to fix it.

You can't get a movie made without a script; it's the blueprint to your building.

The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first.

I actually didn't want to have control of the writing on my first album. To write, you have to have time to connect with yourself. I don't have that time right now, because I'm so busy.

I can't tell you how many pictures I've missed just 'cause I've been so hell bent on getting the shot I think I want.

Don't start your day until you have it finished on paper first.

Some directors involve waiting, and if you want to work with that particular director you're going to have to hang around.

About 70 percent of everything is really sketched out on my keyboard beforehand, because I do want accidents to happen in the studio.

It's strange, people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can't even answer it.

When I listen to great music, the first thing I wonder is what people were saying when this came out of the speakers in the studio. I want to know what happened when they played it and said, "This is the one!"

Do today what you want for your tomorrows

If you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, then someday you can do the things you want do when you want to do them.

One day I was speeding along at the typewriter, and my daughter - who was a child at the time - asked me, "Daddy, why are you writing so fast?" And I replied, "Because I want to see how the story turns out!

First tell yourself what you want to be, then do what you need to do.