Quotes About Process

When you finish a film, you never want to see it again.

Whenever I've done jobs, whether it's an acting job or writing job, there's an aspect of it that feels like you help build your piece of it, and then you watch as someone takes it, and they finish building it.

I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.

I have this thing that, once I finish a movie, I never see it again.

You never make it, especially in this industry where you constantly churn out stuff, things. You never finish.

I don't know - I haven't seen any of my movies after I finish them. I leave the editing room; I don't go back.

It was hard to write or compose... we just had to go back and finish making songs. If we make 20 songs, we'll throw away 10.

It's not like I've got 100 ideas. I finish a book, and I've got none.

You can sand something forever. You can keep working on it. All the arts are like that: there's no magical finish line. You get sick of working on it or you walk away.

Books and movies are never finished, only surrendered.

I learn all these things about the record talking about it after it's finished.

I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished yet.

A lot of films come out before they're finished.

I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done.

Writing itself does not know what it looks like while one is doing it, only when it's finished.

Once I finish a film, I don't ever see it again. Never ever. I have never seen any of my films since I finished them.

I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to read them, because I've spent too long with them already. I'm not advertising them very well, am I?

Lots of shows are written completely in the writer's room. And I wouldn't say 'The Walking Dead' is that way. There are three levels to it. There's us in the room. The writers going off by themselves. And me working with the writers on a finished script.

On every show, there's some amount of work that is brought to some state of completion - or even finished - and then cut out of the movie.

I write songs every day, but only a few of them get finished.

My thing about demos is that you usually prefer them to the finished thing.

I never know when a record is finished until it's almost finished.

I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.

I can make something for a long time and just not come up with an ending. It's finishing things that I don't enjoy.