Melissa George Quotes

I find it so easy to get distracted - I try not to do more than one thing at any one time.

To be honest, I don't enjoy watching movies much when I'm working. They tend to fall apart on me a bit.

I can handle a lot of work. I've always been able to. I'm a very focused individual. I come to my studio at about 7:30 in the morning and exit almost 5:00 P.M. In that time, those eight or nine hours, it's kind of laser focus on whatever I'm working on. There aren't really any distractions or anything.

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.

I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.

No more than a surgeon can operate while tweeting can you reach your potential with one ear in, one ear out. You actually have to reacquaint yourself with concentration. We all do.

When I work, I work. I don't think about anything else. I just wanna get the work done. And I'm a perfectionist.

I don't think I've been bored, ever. I've always been working on two or three things at a time; whether it was in the early days, or whatever, I was always working on something.

Acting and recording an album at the same time, that's not my sport. I could write a movie when my attention was paid to that. But I'm good at one thing at a time.

Here in Seattle, I'm the most productive I've ever been. I don't allow myself personal distractions. I'm extremely disciplined here.

When I'm working, I'm working and I'm focused on that day's work.

I get pretty focused when I start working on something. And I drink a lot of water, way more than most people.

I'm pretty single-minded, unlike a lot of directors who miraculously seem to be holding six projects in their hand at a given time and juggling them accordingly.

My biggest flaw is probably my attention span or lack thereof. And while it might seem contradictory, my biggest strength is my work ethic.

I always do one film at a time.

I want to concentrate on work and won't do anything to divert my concentration.

You have to focus on your job, and if you focus on your job, you block everything out.

I try to be as focused as I can so I can do my job to the best of my abilities.

It's so hard for me to focus on things for a long time that I'm not incredibly passionate about.

I don't get distracted easily. I'm very focused.

I'm so focused that sometimes I feel like I don't need to eat.

I don't really miss anything, I'm so focussed on what I have to do - I'm so focussed on my work - that I don't miss any creature comforts.

I was totally sober in college and really, really focused. I just took the time when other people might be partying and just made music and played at the party instead.

I don't think I would deliver the best work if I would do several projects at the same time. So it's one at a time, but I work a lot. I work nonstop actually, but that's what I like.

I can multitask very well. But I know exactly when to block off anything coming in from the outside and just stay focused on the film.