Quotes About Process

Every time I do a movie like 'Finding Neverland' or 'Chocolat' or 'Shakespeare' in Love, ' we deal with the creative process, but there's humor and fun along the way. I always love that kind of movie.

If you invest the time earlier to create structure and process around communication, planning, and goal-setting, you can prevent missteps before they occur.

I'm a very slow screenwriter. It takes time for me to write a screenplay. Also, I feel it's not my strength.

Some people think architecture is about the genius sketch I don't. Great architecture is a collaboration among a lot of people over a long period of time.

I think there's a lot of learning process in figuring out what things you want to do and shouldn't do. Maturing in that way is something that comes with experience and time.

Forgiveness takes time. It is the last step of the grieving process.

Poetry from the bottom up is an act of selection: you kind of feel your way through the crowds of poems. The good ones came forward a long time ago, and the bad ones fell away.

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

We brewers don't make beer, we just get all the ingredients together and the beer makes itself.

I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker.

The writing is hard, and the drawing is fun. It's very satisfying to see a drawing start to come together.

How come when you mix water and flour together you get glue...and then you add eggs and sugar and you get cake? Where does the glue go?

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

It's weird, but if I decide to do an album, then the ideas start fitting themselves together. I consider myself a nice, slow burn. Plus, it's not a race. And I have a lot to share.

I build a painting by putting little marks together-some look like hot dogs, some like doughnuts.

But, something has to be worked through formally as well as emotionally. Now, when those two things come together I've got something, I think, that I can be proud of.

My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time.

The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.

Writing's a long, slow process. It affords me so little pleasure I often wonder why I make the effort.

every writer needs two selves—the generative self and the editor self.

Pollock once paid a fortune for a Picasso drawing, then erased it in order to see how it was made.

She felt really quite unequal to the tedious process of reconciliation which, in view of the fact that she was sorry, seemed to her highly unnecessary, like some legal routine or the difficulty of getting passports. Her interest in expiation quickly vanished in the face of its actuality.

Things take the time they take. Don't worry.