Quotes About Process

I'd like to do a film in Canada, but it's too difficult. National Film Board funding takes too long, and there's too much paperwork; by the time the film is approved the topic is dead and gone.

Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is.

Innumerable actions are going on through us all the time. If we started counting them, we should never come to an end.

Writing long hand is the last refuge. One needs the time it takes to put pencil to paper and let it run along the ruled line.

I have some assets that over time will be worth something. I've been in the process of selling others.

The roughest part for me when I'm writing a song is staring at a blank page. Where am I going from here? If you're a songwriter, you have to do that every time you start a song.

Democracy is about voting and it's about a majority vote. And it's time that we started exercising the Democratic process.

Whether it is done quickly or slowly, however splendid the results, the process of writing fiction is inherently, inevitably, indistinguishable from wasting time.

Sometimes songs need extra time and space to really play themselves out, and some songs it's like, this is all you need, a straightforward thing.

I must have the personal dialogue, the private time, with each painting in progress. I can't share it with anyone until it's done.

For the time it takes to make the film, you are treated like a cosseted pet. Then the process is over, and you're hung out to dry. It's like being a mink.

At all times it is better to have a method.

It seems like movies normally take a long time to get made. When you focus on it, and you're waiting for something, it seems to take longer.

We all understand that compromise is part of the legislative process, yet at the same time, I would submit that wilderness is not for sale.

Some songs go super-quick; some take a really long time.

I took a course in speed reading. Then I got Reader's Digest on microfilm. By the time I got the machine set up, I was done.

A single model enables me to focus on one thing at a time, separating design and form and color into three successive stages.

It was actually 3 years between albums. That seems like a long time to me

I'm a task-oriented actor. A pretender. And I try to invent my process anew each time I make a new project. So I frown on any method.

Healing is as incremental and mysterious as the damage ... what took time, takes time.

I'm not a very methodologically pure actor. Almost every time that I start, I feel completely at sea. Always at the beginning I feel like a fraud, really, because I'm never sure how to get started.

There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time.

Music is such a problem in the time it takes.

My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.