Howard Finster Quotes

I think I'm chronically exhausted.

You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.

I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the places, and mean to work hard again tonight.

I've worked myself to exhaustion before. I was so young, and I thought I could do everything; it was just too much for my body and my mind.

I don't sleep much. I don't sleep much - I work, I work, I work.

I've been working pretty much 12-16 hours a day, six or seven days a week since May of 2003, and every time I see a photo of myself, I realize that there is never a time when I don't look exhausted.

There's no narcotic like exhaustion.

I don't see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think, in essence, what you're doing is you're raping yourself really.

Naps are the key to relieving stress. When you are working on two hours of sleep, the fact that cheese comes on something when you ordered it with no cheese is enough to send you crying under the covers for an hour.

I depleted myself to the point where I had nothing left.

People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'

I work so much. If I don't get all the comforts, I will turn mad.

When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'

I wasn't even sure I'd be able to walk. I couldn't even go outside. Maybe I was just burnt crisp from the gruelling schedule I had been keeping for years.

I bounce off four walls, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, because I only sleep those four hours a day.

I did three movies in a row, and that was horrible. It was a horrible experience for me.

I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.

I work so hard that I forget to take care of myself.

From morning when I wake up until I go to sleep, I am working. I go to bed and I want to switch off, but the brain doesn't switch off.

I had no idea there were so many ways you could burn yourself out.

If you're in a company, you're dancing from 9 a.m. till 7 in the evening, and then you go home and get in a hot tub and get some Epsom salts and try to get your body goin' again. There's no social life, no anything.

I'm in three bands, and I love to produce records of other bands, and I have a family that I love. I wanted to be everything for everybody and do all of that... I think I just really beat myself up until I got really sick and needed surgery, because it was physically manifesting itself.

If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.

You can run out of energy if you take on a lot of stuff.

With 'Batman,' I actually had a really bad period when we started 'Zero Year,' right at the beginning, I just wasn't taking care of myself at all. I was up too late all the time, I was working too hard. I wasn't exercising.