Quotes About Process

I love the idea of creative collaboration. I love the idea of exploring marriages, particularly ones that are in process for a long time.

Getting a new passport took me a stupid amount of time. I had to go back five times with different photographs because they kept saying I was smiling, which is against the rules. I was not smiling.

Each time, I think I'm never going to write another book. It never gets easier.

Quality and perfection are achieved with time. You do not create a perfect painting or a perfect poem by hurrying. Time is always coming.

Every physical system registers information, and just by evolving in time, by doing its thing, it changes that information, transforms that information, or, if you like, processes that information.

I just can't write and listen to music at the same time.

I really am a strong believer that with editing, it should take a long time. Even you yourself are not capable of making the right decisions; sometimes you need a distance.

You can't really put a time limit on how long someone will grieve.

I developed this guiding statement to stress on the fact that every good thing takes time to develop.

It takes a long time to make me beautiful, but it goes fast to make me ugly.

The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what you do is abstract.

People seem to think there's a magic formula to writing, i just write 1 word at a time.

You have to have an objective, a goal, some thought process, some strategy in your mind for whatever you do. Otherwise it's a waste of time.

I very rarely sit down with a guitar and try to write a song. I usually think about it a lot and then I'll try to re-create what was in my head at the time.

I'm always amazed by writers who say, "Oh you know I had a half hour so I sat down and wrote a little bit." I just need a real big chunk of time to sit down and focus. That's my process.

It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff.

I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.

Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.

I find myself improvising a lot. But, sometimes I'll come us with a chorus or just one line and it will sort of hang out for a long time before it get's flushed out into a real living song.

There's a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer's head, to continually analyze why they write, where it all comes from, where it's going to.

It takes our government an awful lot of time to do most things competently, and that's part of the problem here.

Direction, like time, is a general thing, the deprived of boundaries and borders. It is an endless process interception and reinterception, doubling back and adjusting.

It just takes a long time for me [to write a song]. I'm very slow. And it comes, kind of, by dribbles and drops.

The wonderful thing about film is that you have something that has a beginning, middle, and end, and you have a concrete amount of time to shoot it.