Greta Gerwig Quotes

When you have endless time, you take all day to go to the grocery store. But, if you have to be at work for 14 hours a day, you manage your time better. I know I do.

The thing that would most improve my life is 27 hours in a day. I could meet all my deadlines.

There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.

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.

Half of the time, I'm walking around a construction site, then I'm transitioning into the evening, having drinks with the girlfriends or meeting with my husband and then racing back home to put the kids to bed. I have less time, so I'm a much more efficient decision maker.

My problem is always the number of hours in a day, not the number of things I want to do.

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

Balancing my film career and my music will be something I'm just going to have to deal with, as it happens. I think I can balance it out; the choices will probably be pretty clear. If there's a movie I just have to do, I will work the music around it.

I pack every minute I can with something to do.

I do have to pick my priorities. Nobody can do everything.

I try to compartmentalize as much as possible, and I have the most amazing team in the world. They really set up my time in a way that is completely efficient all the time.

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.'

My mother was a pediatrician, and she kept busy hours. I learned from her you could pack a lot into the day. Every minute had to count, and multitasking was a given.

You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.

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.

Time is our ultimate scarcity. Isaac Newton can give us more electricity, but he can't give us more than 24 hours of the day of time. And so we're constantly having to sacrifice alternate activities to get the one that pleases us most.

I wish there were 48 hours in a day and 14 days in a week.

I fit a lot into my days.

Sometimes you shoot for 40 or 50 hours for a one-hour show, and you have to make some very hard choices.

I really want to complete films in a shorter duration, but somehow it does not seem to happen.

He that pursues two hares at once, does not catch one and lets the other go.

Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

Why can't people be both flexible and efficient?

For me, time is everything, because from the time you wake up you have to have your heart and soul in this. You have to work through the day, you have to go to the gym, you have to eat, and yet you have to work as fast as possible to get home and get rest before the next day begins again.