Quotes About Process

It's a mistake to dwell too much on the consequences of a piece of work that you're making.

I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.

I'd love to see the rushes but it's just not allowed because directors and also a lot of actors feel that if they see their work, and the director likes what they're doing, the actor might try to correct their mistakes.

I go in and sing the song and arrange it and mix it and that's it. It's no different than playing in clubs.

I think anyone who knows the audio process knows what mixing and mastering is.

I wanted to do a project that was seamless and had all the ingredients from start to finish, from conception to mixing and mastering.

Making a record with 'Depeche Mode' is not a simple process. It's quite complicated and long. We have the luxury of time. I'm not sure that's such a good thing when you're being creative.

I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating.

I haven't really tried to write a movie. It's tough to get into that mode.

No candidate dares to look for a new campaign model that could really enhance the democratic process. Instead we are left with the current one which makes our candidates look like hucksters.

I don't have a background in design, so I think it's always about what I see in the world and what inspires me. So yes, I am designing for myself. I'm going through this whole evolution, which is a process of growing up and going from modeling to styling to designing.

Everything is a process... some of our eating habits consist of things we can't change, but if we modify it a little and put some exercise in there, we can really make a difference.

I think probably, the makeup artists don't really know how long it's going to take until they really work with your face and they kind of mold it and build it as they're going along.

There aren't a lot of 'Aha!' moments in writing.

I want anything I produce to be good for people kind enough to try it, but it's the momentum and process I enjoy most.

Film has a magical process to it. The dailies, and the thing you see on your little film monitor, that's not the same thing that's going to be projected.

We always started these albums as making demos, that went right on until Scary Monsters.

In theater, you're allowed to take your time and sit in a role for a month before you have to share it with anybody. In film and TV, you have to just kind of show up and be ready to do that, which, to me, is very strange and crazy.

My experience of fiction was, in the beginning, so exploratory. I wasn't sitting down to a desk at Yaddo with a month, thinking I have to have a draft of a novel.

I'm only at home for, like, a month when I'm doing an album - at the most.

I would spend about eight months on a song, leaving it alone and going back to it later on. I just kept layering things on, building them up in to epic songs. I let the songs evolve - it's really daunting.

We sit in a room for months trying to think of funny things.

Generally I finish a first draft in 2-6 months, then I set it aside for a while so that when I come back to it I can read it with fresh eyes and figure out how to improve it.

I write most of my songs when I'm in a bad mood.