John C. Mather Quotes

I'm guessing the stress of having to write for a deadline can be inspiring. Sometimes, pressure is good.

I love leaving the door open to good ideas. I love the collaborative swirl. I get charged by problem-solving, usually under some kind of stress - the sun is going down, and we have eight minutes, and we have to solve it. Great things come out of it.

Deadlines and things make you creative.

My anxiety level of my own work and what I'm doing and focusing on my art and all of that stuff? That's fundamental.

When you are overworked and exhausted, there is a sense of kind of delirium and that's why I think architects do all-nighters and they kind of do those deadlines. For four days I remember doing four nights in one row with no sleep. I mean nobody, unless you are crazy, would do that, but you are totally focused on the project.

Having deadlines helps because people are constantly breathing down my neck, and tapping their toes waiting for pages. So I just have to work nine to five. If I didn't have deadlines then I might be more of a golden hour kind of guy, writing from eight to noon and calling it a day, but that's just not the way I work right now.

I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines, nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.

I'm more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time.

I don't believe in writer's block. Think about it - when you were blocked in college and had to write a paper, didn't it always manage to fix itself the night before the paper was due? Writer's block is having too much time on your hands.

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.

Publishing is, by its nature, about deadlines, and deadlines are toxic.

I love playing under pressure. In fact, if there's no pressure, then I'm not in the perfect zone.

Writer's block is for people who have the luxury of time.

There's a lot of pressure and criticism in a crisis, but you can't miss the wood for the trees.

I feel like I thrive in the red light.

What I love about research is when I'm having a bad day and I can't write, I'll just research some more, I'll learn some more and I'll have better command of the world of the film.

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

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

I don't need time, I need a deadline.

I don't need time. What I need is a deadline!

It works better for me to be nervous and hungry.

I'd always felt repressed. We were all so pressurised that there was hardly any chance of expressing ourselves, especially working at that rate, touring continually and always kept in a cocoon of myths and dreams.

Sometimes you just get in there and force yourself to work, and maybe something good will come out, ya know? Deadlines and things make you creative. Opportunity and telling yourself you have all the time in the world, all the money in the world, all the colors in the palette, anything you want-that just kills creativity.

Talking about one's work releases the energy and tension to do and make.

Don't be pushed by your problems, be led by your dreams. Govern your life by priorities not your pressures.