Quotes About Process

For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.

Merely by existing and evolving in time - by existing - any physical system registers information, and by evolving in time it transforms or processes that information.

The creative processes are so mysterious.

I mean, artistic processes are all about making choices all the time, and the very act of making a choice is the distilling down and the getting to the core of what it is that you care about and what you want to say, really.

I have always been opposed to illegal changes of our Government or the overthrow of its institutions, whether by force or other illegal means. I have always believed in the democratic processes.

Actors have their own processes, and if you want to be respectful of their process, you've got to communicate with them in the language of their process, and keeping that all straight is a little bit of a head-scratcher.

You can't allow your creative sessions to be dominated by miniscule editing processes.

For me, writing is just processing.

One thing I've heard that makes sense to me about grief is that there's this conception that it's a thing that you process, and then you're done processing it. But really it's not a thing that has an end, it's just what life is like now. You are living with this now, probably forever.

I see procrastination and research as part of my artistic process.

The gradual decline of a society is often a self-induced process of trying to meet ever-expanding appetites, rather than a physical inability to produce past levels of food and fuel, or to maintain adequate defense.

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

So when I looked at pictures and produced my calendar and edited the pictures, it wasn't just about looking at myself and thinking I'm attractive. I try to take myself out of it and get into the whole process of putting it all together.

Britain can claim to lead the world in murder because it was a country that industrialized early. Other countries, going through the same process later, caught up and produced their own genres of detective fiction.

Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.

From the engineer to the producer, all of these roles are critical to creating a song.

I had 25 or 30 songs. Sequencing the record, I left that to the producer. I'm not into doing that stuff.

I tend to start with a full set of lyrics, and then my producer, Joel Little, and I work on the music collaboratively.

As an artist, you can't expect a producer to just bring you a record. If you walk in and say, 'I want Kanye West's 'Power,' it just doesn't work that way.

I'm not so bothered by the audition process anymore; in fact, I use it. It's a time for the actor to actually get to the know the director and the producers a little bit, too.

If I want to be a leading man in a film, box office numbers count because producers have invested money. I see no wrong in that process.

Producers like to record all the drums first, then they do the bass, then all the guitars, so you're constantly moving from one song to another.

There are producers, like the late Geoffrey Perkins, who have truly great ideas that will fire up your synapses and show you that handing in your first draft is not the end of a horrible process, but the beginning of a beautiful one.

The actual producing, mixing, and mastering is hard work, harder than what I do.