Quotes About Process

I would draw a really sharp distinction between creating and producing. I think that they're very different things.

You can't be an artist while you're producing, because you'll be over-critiquing the producer part.

I produce more movies than I write, but when I write, it is such an immersive, intense process that it probably takes as much or more time than producing multiple movies.

It's no secret that my favorite part of the process is making records; if I'm not making them with Flatts, then I'm out producing them on other folks.

Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process.

I wish that I had known back then that a mastery of process would lead to a product. Then I probably wouldn't have found it so frightening to write.

Any system that sees aesthetics as irrelevant, that separates the artist from his product, that fragments the work of the individual, or creates by committee, or makes mincemeat of the creative process will, in the long run, diminish not only the product but the maker as well.

Growth hackers are typically computer engineers that build great marketing ideas into the product during the development process.

I discovered I was passionate about the creative process, the product development, creating a concept around a fragrance or lipstick.

What normally we see is the finished product, someone's performance on screen, but behind the scenes, a lot goes into it.

The ribosome is a machine that gets instructions from the genetic code and operates chemically in order to produce the product.

Often in each collection, there are three or so seeds of things that come together accidentally to form what appears to everyone else as a final product, but for me, it is never ending.

When you're relegated to go from movie to movie, so much of what you're doing is out of your control beyond creating the product.

When you do a voice in an animated film, you don't see the finished product at all. You're not animating. You're not doing the voice on the finished product. You're doing the voice long before.

If you would ask me what my ideal process is, I would say, long pre-production, long production and long post-production.

As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production.

I think the most satisfying part about filmmaking is seeing a production in full bloom. When I write, I write in isolation.

There's something about taking a film from concept to script, through production, and then to see the final thing happening in the edit phase. It's almost like a miracle in the making.

My very first records, I was very interested in how you get the particular quality you want out of it, and I began to learn about the engineering and aspects of production and things very early on. I got hands-on with the process and taught myself how to engineer, as opposed to just being a producer who asked the engineer to make it sound nice.

The system continually has to make this choice: it can either continue to exploit a known process and make it more productive, or it can explore a new process at the cost of being less efficient.

I've always felt like I needed to experience some type of anguish in order to feel productive as an artist.

I think it's the same to be an actress anywhere because the profession is about attitudes towards events - it is a process to try to understand life. I think this is the case for actors across the world.

A different script calls for different things. It always takes me a long time to get to know the part, and know the logic behind the words. I have to be with the script for quite a long time before things start to fall into place, before they become part of the character.

I get things out of my system through my songs, but, because they can be about so many different things, it takes me a while to get through them emotionally.