- Nov 07, 2020
Cranking Quotes
On churning out work fast - and its cost.
"Cranking" here describes high-volume output - songs, movies, storylines - made quickly, sometimes at an assembly-line pace. Several speakers weigh that pace against wanting their remaining years or projects to feel more precious.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Big Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
A big part of the Motown formula was, they took music and turned it into this sort of automotive assembly line. They were cranking out 10 songs a day in that studio, or more.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very opinionated, and when you're put in a position where you're getting the storylines that are not necessarily what's cranking at the back of your mind, or digging at the potential of your character and you have to sit on your hands, that's frustrating.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is short. I'm 47 years old. I've got 10 years to go where I can be the best I can be. I want those 10 years to be precious, not like before, cranking two or three movies a year. I've made a ton of movies in my life, but so what?
- Clearing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ironically, the more deliberate we are in our work - cranking through our inboxes, clearing our to-do lists - the more myopic we become.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not at all interested in simply reporting what's here right now, or cranking out an entertainment device that's going to touch the widest number of people. I'm interested in digging and excavating as deep as I can go into those small eternal moments and how they expand out, or close in, on the lives of my characters.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a really good idea for a novel and would like to just kind of try my hand at fiction. I'm starting to kind of get a really good body of work going from a literary standpoint. As long as the audience is there, man, I'll keep cranking them out.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
And that's why I chose on purpose not to have a death scene. We've seen them in a million movies and it's too much like cranking the tears out. I didn't want that scene.
- Habit
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've gotten into the habit of cranking out a set of push-ups before each show to get my blood pumping and find my focus. I worked my way up from eight to 30. That was a real accomplishment.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020