Barry Sonnenfeld Quotes

There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.

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

We are always rushing to an appointment or trying to meet a deadline.

Love sets fire to your schedule, And then calls an end to time.

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

You’d better get busy, though, buddy. The goddam sands run out on you every time You turn around. I know what I’m talking about. You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze In this goddam phenomenal world.

The natural urge when running a distance is to push harder and finish sooner - to race against time. Every second behind a deadline is a little defeat.

Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them.

We have not the time to take our time.

Hurry boys, hurry, we have to make a quick change or the hour will be up.

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

When someone is impatient and says, 'I haven't got all day,' I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

I am always in a rush because time is slipping away, and I am chasing it, chasing it.

In some ways I was curt because there's an unbelievable amount to accomplish in a day.

Television is all about deadlines.

'Monday Night Football' has the good and the bad points. The bad point is you have to wait around all day, and it disrupts your schedule for the next week. Now you have one less day to prepare for the following week.

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

I ain't got time to bleed.

Sometimes when you have an abundance of time and money, it's less conducive to the creative process. I like the urgency of the television schedule and the television price point. It's fluid. You figure it out on the day, and I love the challenge of problem-solving.

Everybody knows the power of deadlines - and we all hate them. But their effectiveness is undeniable.

Deadlines comes as a surprise....superb: a new genre, in fact, combining the pleasures of list-making with that of last-minute eaves-dropping.

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

Go Sir, gallop and don't forget that the world was made in six days. You can ask me for anything but not time.

If you're short on time, that would be the two-word version of our story: we fell.