When you're making a reality show, you can't even plan a week ahead now.
‐‐ Simon Cowell
When you're making a record, you try to achieve stylistically what fits on you. Like a good old coat, you know what I mean?
‐‐ Richie Sambora
When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director.
‐‐ Eli Roth
When you're making a TV drama, the showrunner is God, and so however onerous and difficult and consuming that responsibility is, you're being treated with respect, so it changes your whole outlook to the production. You're being asked about costumes, set design, music, every aspect of the show.
‐‐ Michael Hirst
When you're making an independent film, it's like this actor plus this actor equals this funding, this financing. Pull this actor out, this actor is still here but this money's gone. It's this frightening puzzle mosaic that is the world of independent film.
‐‐ Jill Soloway
When you're making an independent film what you don't have in time and money you have to make up with creativity and diligence.
‐‐ Matthew Lillard
When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
‐‐ Daniel Craig
When you're making music, it's meant to be shared with people. Sometimes, even if I'm writing a song, someone else brings a vibe. There's something different about it. If someone can play a better bassline than me, I'll let them do it. I'm just here to fit in and see where it goes.
‐‐ Benny Blanco
When you're making music or playing a song, I find the moments when there are no instruments being played even stronger than when they are being played. Because they add tension. It's also an ego-less thing - a place where you have no ego - when you're with a bunch of musicians who stop and listen instead.
‐‐ Sarah McLachlan
When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move.
‐‐ Michael Douglas
When you're making something big, whether it's long-form fiction or a big piece of software, whatever that is, you're having a very intimate and extended conversation with the work materials themselves.
‐‐ David Wroblewski
When you're making the film, you don't really think the audience; it's only when you start editing that you really start to became aware of your audience because you're thinking of how you communicate these ideas, and how lucid can you be, and yet stay within the language you've established.
‐‐ Jonathan Glazer
When you're making TV, the last thing you want to do is watch TV. It's too much.
‐‐ Kerr Smith
When you're making under-million-dollar films, it becomes so much about actors' availability. When you're using big actors for small films, you're in second or third position to the big monoliths.
‐‐ Adam Rapp
When you're making video, you're giving structure to time, which is what a composer does.
‐‐ Bill Viola
When you're managing a large number of people, you learn that incentives matter tremendously. You really want people to be rewarded for doing the right thing for the customers and the organization.
‐‐ Ramez Naam
When you're managing an emergency department, you're trying to keep everybody calm, so when an emergency comes in the door, everyone can do their best work.
‐‐ Glen Mazzara
When you're married to somebody iconic, people tend to notice him.
‐‐ Pattie Boyd
When you're married to someone famous, people know you, but they're not really seeing you.
‐‐ Patti Scialfa
When you're me, when you're R. Kelly, everybody wants a piece of you, and if you don't give 'em a piece they'll find a way to get a piece of you one way or the other.
‐‐ R. Kelly
When you're mid-season, in very intense situations, it's hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you're sleeping, you can't control what you dream about. And it sneaks into the unconscious.
‐‐ Aaron Paul
When you're miserable, you don't want anyone around you to be happy.
‐‐ Amy Lee
When you're modeling you're actually acting for the camera and the photographer. It's more fun, too because there are no lines to memorize.
‐‐ Cindy Margolis
When you're more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work.
‐‐ Sheryl Sandberg
When you're moved by music, that's always good.
‐‐ Stone Gossard
When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.
‐‐ John le Carre
When you're nearing 35, going, 'Hey Dad, I can't make these payments,' just isn't cool.
‐‐ Eleanor Mondale
When you're never home and traveling, you don't play videogames.
‐‐ Olga Kurylenko
When you're nice, people like you and will want to work with you. But it can mean that they take you for granted.
‐‐ Mario Testino
When you're No. 1 or No. 300, you still get to play and write the songs.
‐‐ Patrick Stump
When you're no longer ill, and everyone's gotten over the fact that you've had cancer, that core of steel doesn't go away, and then I had to find other channels for it.
‐‐ Sam Taylor-Wood
When you're not a mom, you can get up in the middle of the night, paint, sleep all morning... you can't do that when you have two children!
‐‐ Julie Mehretu
When you're not at the top of your game and you feel like the other team is laughing and embarrassing you by doing certain things, it's time to retaliate.
‐‐ Bert Blyleven
When you're not blond and thin, you come up with a personality real quick.
‐‐ Kathy Najimy
When you're not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom.
‐‐ Larry David
When you're not in studios, you don't have any luxuries; you can't control the elements, so you have to put up with those extremes.
‐‐ Richard Madden
When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it's you, it ceases to be a comedy.
‐‐ Barry Hannah
When you're not needed somewhere, it never feels great.
‐‐ Tim Howard
When you're not on the payroll, and you want to continue the Beverly Wilshire lifestyle, but you're only geared for a Holiday Inn existence, things are gonna catch up to you.
‐‐ Bobby Keys
When you're not part of a club, you have to find another way of surviving.
‐‐ Mika
When you're not playing the hero of the story, then you have to know that you're always a foil for the good guy. I love playing that. I think that's always an interesting place to be.
‐‐ Jessalyn Gilsig
When you're not sure your anger is justified, the thing to do is ask yourself exactly where it's coming from.
‐‐ Lynn Coady
When you're not the lead on a series, you work intermittently, even if you're in every episode.
‐‐ Jim Beaver
When you're not the lead, you don't have as many restrictions.
‐‐ Britt Robertson
When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
‐‐ Laura Prepon
When you're not working is when you have to stay positive and remind yourself that you're talented.
‐‐ Rutina Wesley
When you're nursing and you're working 18-hour days, that's pretty hard.
‐‐ Kate Hudson
When you're obsessive, like me, searching for something unattainable can become unhealthy... it's like falling through the air and grabbing at the clouds.
‐‐ Jonny Wilkinson
When you're offered things, it makes it so much easier to be indecisive. And it's silly because you can pass on some really amazing things.
‐‐ Alicia Silverstone