Christopher Nolan Quotes

System: Save yourself time, energy and money.

Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

Time is valuable; people are busy.

But I'm very happy to work within tight parameters, and when you know you have an actor for two days, and you have to get that work done in two days, that focuses the mind wonderfully.

I'm more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time.

The time I save setting up and cleaning up probably balances out by the time I spend on output.

Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.

Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?

Time is a resource whose supply is inversely proportional to its demand.

Whenever I have to do something, I try to minimise the time it takes me to do it. I just cannot wait.

I've learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.

I'm trying to keep my days very efficient, and I keep my set really tight. Every single corner is active, and everybody gets to thrive in the job that they do. I don't waste people's time.

Three-quarters of directors waste four hours on a shot that requires five minutes of actual directing. I prefer to have five minutes' work for the crew - and keep the three hours to myself for thought.

The obvious rule of efficiency is you don't want to spend more time organizing than it's worth.

If you see something that doesn't make sense, ask. Change it. Think about dollars, think about your soldiers' time, think about efficiency.

The best thing for my creative process is a deadline.

Pro Tools rules. You get the opportunity to try more things because you don't waste so much time trying to get the perfect take.

Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing.

People that don't want to get down to the business at hand. Instead of just doing less, we have to find ways of doing more with less. That's the key to the future.

I'm very comfortable with being productive. I like doing things, and I like creating things. As far as being powerful, I guess I'm comfortable with it. It's not really how I think of myself.

Sometimes time constraints bring out something cool.

You think effectiveness with people and efficiency with things.

A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time

Your greatest resource is your time.