Quotes About Process

I think some people watch 'Raging Bull,' or they watch 'The Piano Teacher,' and I think they're more, maybe, able to process an antihero in a dramatic context, where people more want comedy to take care of them. But that's not really taking care of people. That's just providing escape, which sometimes is necessary.

In order to encourage the cattle farmers to raise a herd of all-natural cattle, which is a several-year process, they have to know that it's not just Shake Shack that wants to buy it. They have to have other buyers who are willing to pay more for all natural.

I raise this objection to debate the process, and protect the integrity of the true will of the people.

Often, entrepreneurs don't build a board until they are forced to by their VCs when they raise their first financing round. This is dumb, as you are missing the opportunity to add at least one person to the team who - as a board member - can help you navigate the early process of building your company and raising that first round.

I wouldn't say films are a natural process after modelling. Films are more complex. There is not much connection between ramp shows and films.

The thing I ran up against was everybody wanted a song so fast. It took me two years to finish 'Touch Me in the Morning.'

I ran a 'loan modification machine.'

We may look back in horror that we allowed our children to be born of the random processes that nature provides.

I don't write on set. I also - in a funny way, I don't really differentiate between the writing and directing. I think it's all sort of the same thing.

Quite understandably, people think that if there's a six-year gap or whatever, that it's taken me six years to make the album. It's not really like that at all.

If you go back and look at the early promos for Gears 1, you'll see just how different the characters were from the actual first game, both in appearance and background. And it's an evolutionary process.

I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.

It takes a year for us to generate a script that is ready to shoot. There are maybe 20 drafts of a script. And, each time, someone saying 'I don't really love this,' we discuss it for 15 minutes.

Being at the genesis of the creative process is definitely something I want to keep doing. It's just such a great buzz.

Usually, I don't revisit a scene once shot. However, in 'Gentleman,' every morning on the sets, I had to revisit the last four scenes and then shoot for the next set of scenes.

Working at 'Harper's' was an awakening experience for me. I genuinely enjoyed the process of putting together a fashion magazine.

For me, the creative process is this giant patchwork of information.

I love the process of acting, and to turn your passion into a career is the biggest gift.

Writing a film is like giving birth to a baby and then giving it up for adoption.

But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.

If the day's writing has been particularly good or particularly bad, a glass of scotch will be involved.

You have to focus on the process. You cannot be glued to the results.

When you do a movie, you shoot, and then you go away. A lot of the times you walk about from the movie, you say, 'Oh, I get that scene now... Oh, that whole ending - I wish I could have done another shot.'

When I sit down to write, I don't have any real goals except to follow one good sentence with another... I'm not the kind of writer who has a map.