Trip Hawkins Quotes

Now, there is no way to say how long some projects take, that's our principle.

I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type.

Studios are an assembly line. They can be a very good assembly line. As a producer, you concentrate on one project at a time. As an executive, you're in charge of a slate.

I adjust my priorities according to the most important project I'm involved in at the time.

Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated.

A fixed deadline and a flexible scope are the crucial combination.

As a director, you just have to kind of like just get through the first project before starting on the next one.

The Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules - the first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.

I think any filmmaker looks back and thinks, 'Boy, if we only had four hours more on that day when the sun was going down,' or, 'If we only spent more time and went back.'

I usually work on a film soundtrack for two years, turning in a song every few months, and that keeps my creative energy high, because I'm constantly rotating projects. The trick is to make sure I don't work too hard and get exhausted.

Well, there's much more time to do a weekly show, and much more coverage - as it turns out, it was all preparation for the stuff I'm doing now - but it was interesting to see how much time was spent on how little airtime, compared to knocking out a show a day on the soaps.

We've always been the development project that lived in a time pressured setting and always where commercial entities were relying heavily on releases in a certain time frame.

How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.

You cannot always make such big exhibitions, because they consume too much time and energy.

No, I do not want to sacrifice four days for two games. My time is too valuable to do that.

I have a choice - I can either watch all the dailies, or I can follow the social media. I can't do both.

I do screen work, adult books, kids books and comic stuff, which gives me a pretty full plate. The problem is usually choosing which one I want to work on next.

Part of executive functions is the ability to look to a goal deadline and assess where an organization is in meeting it.

I get so many requests for interviews. If I talk to everyone, we can't do our job with our customers and work on our software. It would be hard to stay focused.

How can I run an agency at the same time?

It is always impossible to expect things getting done in 90 days.

The biggest way to be productive is if you're procrastinating on another more important project.

If you're overbooked, you can't manage pressing problems or even recognize they're pressing until too late.

The first thing I learned as a producer is that you have very little control over the life of a project. Anything can stall a film from financing to scheduling to casting. Things fall apart all the time. Don't waste time on something that just won't get made. Try to have as many projects going at one time as you can handle.

I try to keep the number of projects I'm involved in down to one per year.