Douglas Wilson Quotes

You only have a week to do a show. I mean, there's only so deep you can dig in that week.

I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.

'The Squid and the Whale' I shot in 23 days. I would have loved more time for it at the time, but in some ways that kind of kamikaze way of shooting was right for that movie.

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 work best after the deadline has passed, when I'm in a panic.

They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.

One of the things that's, I think, hard in television is that there's a certain sameness to a lot of television because you're working in a very constricted box, and the box is defined by the amount of money you have to spend and the amount of time you have to get ready.

Just trying to get a film made which is always difficult no matter what kind of a budget you have. Not having a budget makes it even more difficult. Having nineteen days and no budget makes it extremely difficult.

Everybody in the real world will agree - the moment a project is behind deadline, quality assurance tends to go out the window.

A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines.

That was, in writing the 'Twilight' script I had about five weeks to write that. I'd taken about a month to write the outline and then it was slam into a script and write it down fast because the writer's strike was looming.

I may not want to write every day, but I have no choice - there are deadlines to meet.

We've been involved in a lot of albums that were really rushed at the end.

Most film teams usually come with a tight deadline, which doesn't leave us much time to compose.

My only problem, and this has been a constant worry on television, is time management. The deadlines on television are killing.

When one gets time duration, one becomes very restricted, and hence, creativity suffers.

It's hard to prep a movie in five days and shoot it in five days and cut it in barely any time. You don't get quite enough time to make the thing, let alone tell the story.

When I was making films, we had a lot of time for the fighting scenes. But in TV, we don't have much time to think about how to do the fighting, because there are only seven days for an episode. You have to hurry. This is a challenge.

Sometimes you're forced to do the cover before the story is done.

We may not have a sample size larger than one, or we may not have unlimited resources - it's a TV show, and we generally turn these things around in about a week or so.

Deadlines and things make you creative.

Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.

You're always against the clock. But really just fighting for quality.

We're running out of time.

Television is all about deadlines.