Quotes About Process

Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think.

I kind of feel like... I have a slower instinct than most live-action directors, but I have more patience.

I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces.

Language itself changes slowly, but the Internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.

I write very slowly.

I made nothing happen very slowly.

Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly.

I like to cook things very slowly.

I write slowly.

I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the first draft. I can write more quickly than I can read.

Ideally, writers and narrative designers should be included much earlier in the process, where they can be of most benefit. However, although the industry is slowly getting used to fitting narrative professionals into games development, we're still going through a bit of a 'square-peg in a round hole' phase.

I write slowly and get distracted a lot.

I write slowly. I can't move on until I've got a paragraph right.

I want to be an artist that grows slowly. If you appear overnight, there's a chance that you will also just disappear overnight.

I write really slowly, and my lines are really, really terrible all the time. It takes so long for me to get them to be where I won't be embarrassed to sing them, and then feel like they're great.

A small change at the beginning of the design process defines an entirely different product at the end.

Every actor must go through the process of learning and not just be in a hurry to become famous. They should learn to live in small amounts and not to try and copy others.

With acting, you are a small part of the creative process, and sometimes it is hard to feel like you are making an impact.

Actors play a small part in all the things that go into the making of a movie. I want to know about pre-production, post-production, shot divisions - everything.

I just write notes all day on my phone, and when I write songs it becomes a patchwork of these smaller notes that I had, mixed with stuff in the moment.

The process of radiation may be, and is, continuous - at any rate within limits extending to far smaller quantities than the quantum.

It's funny because you know the novel process: you get the drafts, you get the galley, and then you get the galley proofs. You have opportunities to change things all along. But the further along in the process you go, the more careful you have to be in making those changes, and the smaller the changes have to be.

Some films really do take years to get going, but I'd say that most of the films I want to do are slightly smaller projects. Some could be sketches. They're not all oil paintings.

People often want the big dramatic works, not the smaller quieter ones, but I don't worry about how it fits together anymore; I just have to do it. I feel compelled to make a work: it's like an itch I have to scratch, and once it's been scratched, it goes away.