Quotes About Process

I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.

I love disagreements. I love the democratic process. If I'm in a room where everybody agrees, I start to nod off.

It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it.

I really love the process, with stage, of rehearsal, you get to create a character, and you have a beginning, a middle, and an end of story. And in television, you don't.

I love the process of auditioning and having the chance to play a million different characters in one week - it's great.

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process

Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.

I like that when you create you really do create with a very small group of people, and in that space, before it goes out to all these people, that's what I love.

I love that there's a beginning, middle and end to a film and you can craft what the whole journey is going to look like.

I love making pictures, even if most of the results are lousy.

All sizes of film sets have the same level of excitement and friction and tension and then vast sections of boredom that define the process, so I love it all.

I'd love to do another television series. I really love the writing process, and as an actor I really like how much you get to examine in television.

Personally, I've made myself a very small window of what I enjoy in this business, which is I love being a big part of the storytelling process.

Once I engage in something, I really engage in it, and I love the process of reading and researching because I come from an academic background.

Like all idolatries, democratism substitutes a false god for the real, a love of process for a love of country.

Let us return back to the peace process for our children and for their children. The peace of the brave which I have signed is my debt, part in our love for [Isaac] Rabin.

I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.

I love the history of photography and one process has always replaced another. However, very, very few have disappeared.

A good edit process turns rocks into diamonds, and every author should love that part as much as the creative phase. I do love it. It's a different side to writing. It's like the fine-tuning.

Rainbows is a pretty honest look at my approach to life and love. While I admit to not exactly being an angel, I do try and live life to the fullest and give as much as I can of myself in the process

On the Anvil

Sometimes God takes his time: One hundred twenty years to prepare Noah for the flood, eighty years to prepare Moses for his work. God called young David to be king but returned him to the sheep pasture. He called Paul to be an apostle and then isolated him in Arabia for perhaps three years. Jesus was on the earth for three decades before he built anything more than a kitchen table. How long will God take with you? He may take his time. His history is redeemed not in minutes but in lifetimes.

When I am alone the flowers are really seen; I can pay attention to them. They are felt as presences. Without them I would die. Why do I say that? Partly because they change before my eyes. They live and die in a few days; they keep me closely in touch with process, with growth, and also with dying. I am floated on their moments.

Revision is not going back and fussing around, but going forward into the highly complex and satisfying process of creation.