A revolution is not an event. It's a process. And it takes its time.
It took five years to get 'Parental Guidance' made, and it was a fight every second.
A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead of me.
I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.
I'm never gonna go into a studio and work for a whole year non-stop. Just every day on my own in the studio working, it's just too damn hard.
Be willing to wait longer for you goals to bear fruit than you had anticipated.
The basic challenge of any book is you know you're going to be working on it for three or four years or more. So you want to have a subject that will keep you engaged.
'Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere' took me six years to write.
Runnin' this game for five years, guess that's why my feet hurt.
Honestly, I think I've stretched a talent which is so thin it's almost transparent over a quite unbelievable term of years.
Everyone engaged in research must have had the experience of working with feverish and prolonged intensity to write a paper which no one else will read or to solve a problem which no one else thinks important and which will bring no conceivable reward - which may only confirm a general opinion that the researcher is wasting his time on irrelevancies.
We always need to remember that behind almost every great moment in history, there are heroic people doing really boring and frustrating things for a prolonged period of time.
Sustaining the energy and focus involved in doing a good job I think starts to - starts to gets tougher the longer you do it.
I'd tried enough to know that anything long term wasn't going to work.
I spent five years after '3 Idiots' making my next film. I didn't see a single penny in those five years.
I know. And that's what took me so long
When you're working on a project that's going to take six years, you're weird from the jump.
I took five years on the first volume, five years on the second volume, and ten years on the third volume.
There came a time in every prolonged effort when he had a moment of near panic, or 'terror in a lonely place', the original semantic content of the word. The lonely place was his own mind.
I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night - and that went on for eight years.
