Quotes About Process

It does not mean that in the process of a small screen, I do small acting, or if I do a big screen project, I do big acting. For the actor, it does not matter.

If you just trust the process, that's the big thing.

I can't make a perfect record. When I try to, I bleed all the feeling out of it.

The blind audition process can be nerve-wracking.

The entire process of making a movie is sort of blind trust because, otherwise, all of it just doesn't make any sense: the fact that we can create any sense of reality or emotion given the arbitrariness of a day.

Sometimes you get blinded by results rather than the process.

Usually writer's block arises when something is wrong internally with the story.

I feel like I spend most of my time in a state of writer's block! When things do come out, they come out quickly.

When I asked what people would change about their bodies on Twitter, the birthing process was an extremely popular response!

I do the same kind of rewriting that I do in the shorts that I do in long books - and that is a lot. The book really comes to life in the rewriting.

When I'm in the studio, I just let it rip. That's my process. I get in the booth, and whatever is on my mind at the time, I just go off and say it.

We have the script, we have the actors, and we're trying to figure out what this is, and you don't know what it is. You have to be open to what it's going to become rather than have this thing that you're trying to get to, which is boring.

When it comes to remaking my own films in the English language, I can only imagine that it is a very boring process, I wouldn't ever dream of it.

Usually a lot of moviemaking is boring.

I never know how a novel is going to end, because you don't really know what's going to be at the bottom of a novel until you excavate it.

I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain.

Sometimes a manuscript is like bread dough. You have to abuse it.

Writing a novel isn't like building a brick wall. You don't figure out how to do it, and then it gets easier each time because you know what you're doing. With writing a novel, you have to figure it out each time. Each time you start over, you just have the language and the idea and the hope.

Artificial intelligence is one of 50 things that Watson does. There is also machine learning, text-to-speech, speech-to-text, and different analytical engines - they're like little Lego bricks. You can put intelligence in any product or any process you have.

In my brief writing life, it means I am still lucky that I have at least one more novel to complete. I do not expect that a story will arrive just because it is time to write another novel. It doesn't happen that way.

With movies, you get to be in a bubble while you're creating it, and it's not until it comes out that you see whether people like it or not.

You never have any idea where your movie's going to go when you're shooting - you're in this little bubble.

But when culture becomes a baggage, things don't work. What is good about anything that feels like a baggage? I think we should let go when it feels like a burden. Hold on to the things you love. Then it will be a natural process.

The creation is a very internal process, and publishing the book is a very external process. It is nice to see the book out in the world and people having the same reaction as when I created it. The point of all art is the emotional transference, and when that happens, the book has succeeded.