Majandra Delfino Quotes

The actual work of recording a record or making a film just requires that you consciously block the time out to do that and nothing else. That's what I do.

I think everybody's got different methods of working which suit the particular individual. Mine is to sort of play the part, and give 100%, to concentrate and focus on it while I'm actually working, but then leave it behind until the next day.

When I'm working, I'm obsessively working.

I'm not a light-hearted person, so I can't think light-hearted at work.

It's not how many hours you put in with a client or on a project. It's the quantity and quality of your energy - your focus and force - that determine whether that time is valuable.

Making a film is very hard work, and you live or die by the sword just a little bit every time you do it, but I wouldn't chuck it in.

Of course, every artist has 'minor works' that they do, but I don't think I have any 'minor disciplines.' Each discipline I approach as a major undertaking that I put my whole self into.

I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.

When I'm working, I'm not so much disciplined as obsessive. I have this feeling that I need to clear everything away and get this down.

When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.

When I'm working, I don't wake up and say, 'OK, time to go be intense.' I just look at whatever scenes we're working on that day and break them down - just real intense everyday work.

My goal, with whatever I'm working on, is to lose track of time.

Whenever I am acting, it's everything, you know. If I'm researching a role, I'm completely consumed in that and, between action and cut, I live in this suspended time.

People often say that stress is a motivator. What we're referring to when we say this is really better described as stimulation and engagement.

When I'm on set, I do whatever I can to find my focus.

There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.

You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration.

I've always had, when I needed it, an extreme amount of focus that I could put into something. That has served me well.

I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.

I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character.

I can multitask like crazy. I'm riddled with ADD - a blessing and a curse.

I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.

It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.

I'm spending all my time and energy on the project at hand.

There's nothing romantic about my work... I don't believe in inspiration. I believe that you get to your desk, you stay there, you work, you think of nothing else. You write and you write, and in the end, you write something good.