John Ross Bowie Quotes

'Law & Order' is a six-month shoot. Everything has to be crammed in. I had so much fun, but it wasn't a holiday. We had seriously long days, and we'd finish at 8 P.M. and start again at 7 A.M. We were doing six-day weeks, which sometimes tripped onto the seventh. But I loved it all.

There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals.

With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don't realize how much work goes into writing and producing and making a movie.

We all know that people who've never been on a film set think it's way more glamorous than the people who work on them.

A TV show is constant work, which is the great thing about it.

I remember what it was like to be doing 'Lost' and how creatively immersive it was. I just couldn't really engage on anything else, other than 'Lost;' I was just thinking about it all the time, and then there was just the pure workload, the 70- or 80-hour weeks.

The truth is, working on single camera, show or film, you have no life. You work 60-80 hours a week. You're up before your kid gets up, and you're home when they go to sleep.

I usually work 16-hour days.

When I work, it can be a 16-hour day.

I'm working over 80 hours a week and have to keep on track.

I worked 120 hours a week for eight years. That's 20 to 22 hours a day every day and one week I only got 15 hours sleep.

I work 338 days a year, 16 hours a day.

I work really long days and I work seven day weeks.

Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.

I track some long hours.

I don't want to say I'm never going to direct again, but directing's hard work.

'Grey's Anatomy,' that was a great show to be part of, but they work really long hours. They were all just really tired. Just worn out.

Fashion Week is horrible. I mean, it isn't horrible, really - it's amazing. But having to work that much every day is.

I am busier than a whore working two beds.

Normally, I work 18 hours a day.

It's an interesting thing to come to New York and do a television show. You're doing 10 hours of content in four and a half months. Eighty-hour weeks are par for the course.

Working on a show for seven months is, as it turns out, kind of exhausting.

I work 110-hour weeks.

I'm pretty much working 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The moment you've brought a toothbrush to work, then you're getting into crunch time.