Quotes About Process

Everyone is different, and every relationship is different, and I think the rules can change, and feelings can change. It's not only about who you're with, but also where you are in your own life and your own process.

I'm getting those familiar feelings, and I'm just going to enjoy the process of getting to know someone again.

I fell in love with the whole process of making a movie. I loved the sets. I loved watching the actors and the crew.

I've always taken a lot of joy in my work, but it's also been very results-oriented. It's kind of like, making the thing, and taking a lot of joy in that, as opposed to allowing myself to be transported by the work of my fellow musicians.

Female can understand more detail and really care for the consequence and understand all the process.

When I'm watching one of my movies in a festival with fans who are just into it and they love it? I end up feeling like my film is more interesting, it becomes more fun to watch and I get a special energy that feeds back into my process.

Writing is like carrying a fetus.

We were really into what Cliff Martinez did with 'Drive;' we were into what Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross were doing with David Fincher. When I read about how they worked with David Fincher, they're composing hours and hours of music and then he's working and figuring it out.

I just go to lunch. And I never know when something is going into the file and something is not.

I leave a lot open so I can fill it in later. If I don't have any ideas right away, I can fill it in later.

My whole musical life has been an educational process, and I'm just furthering my education and filling in the blanks. There's stuff that I want to know that I don't know.

I don't think it matters how fast you write. It's how long you thought about it. I like to think of it as a well filling up. I think about it until the well is full, and then I let go.

We all learn every day, and that's the magic about film making.

Film acting, if you don't play the lead, you come, and you do your scenes in a few days, and you act with a couple of colleagues. All the rest of the actors you never see, and you don't even meet many of them. And you don't know what will happen with what you've done. Maybe it will be in the film, maybe it will not.

When you're working on film music, you're only working on 20, 30-minute sections at a time.

Most of the films I've done were ruined in the postproduction, not during filming.

'America' took at least five days of actual filming.

I don't really enjoy filming.

I hate filming in the studio.

I'm not the kind of filmmaker who's going to go from one thing to the next. I often wish I was that filmmaker, but I'm just not.

Good filmmakers make bad films; it happens.

I love the process of working with a filmmaker and the writers and the actors.

For me, it doesn't matter what kind of role I am doing. I just enjoy the process of acting and filmmaking.

I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.