Quotes About Process

If you think about what you do, if you become self-conscious about it, you've got to be very careful. Because I really like to write without self-awareness of what I'm doing.

Democracies have to be careful that they do not become so process-driven.

Every How is carried by a What.

So what I do is supervise the boarding process trying to get the shows the way I'd like them to be. And in some cases I've completely redone a board myself even though I'm not credited for it.

When I write songs, it's just me and a cassette player - or at least it used to be before smartphones - to quickly record a basic idea.

It's a very dull thing to watch, a writer at work. So dull that whole casts of characters show up just to watch the boring writer writing.

I don't want to get caught up and be an artist always on the go. Because once you do that, it's hard to get into the studio and do what I do.

When I write a record, I don't even touch a computer. I don't even bring my cell phone.

Life isn't a store where you just go in and be like 'Oh, Ima get that.' It's a process. Especially if you don't really know how to acquire certain things.

Often I have to move my body in a certain way, like exercising, to begin to get into the right rhythm for writing a song.

I just I don't feel challenged by acting anymore. I don't enjoy the process anymore.

Generally, my life is absolute chaos, but when I'm writing songs, it's very thought out and regimented.

Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts. You had a writer, and he wrote a script, and that was your movie. I think that's been watered down a bit lately.

Writing is a chore.

We chose the actors thru a series of auditions when we started the show.

If a process or adaptation seems too smart for nature, that's a failure of your imagination, not the hand of God. I can make that claim because we have a working model of life's morphing and molding without it.

It's inevitable now, because everyone is a superstar, even if they're just an average player, and maybe that was part of the process set in motion when I signed that contract in 1994.

You'll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song.

I don't talk about films even after I sign them because between the signing and the shooting, anything can happen. I am not superstitious, it's just that I don't like talking about a film that is not completed.

I think we writers are very superstitious. We don't know why it's working when it's working, so we attach cause and effect.

Athletes, like everyone else, at times take supplements but just have to consult your doctors and work on that. It's a process, but it's achievable... It's my job to be healthy.

I believe that we have a huge problem with the water in America. We don't want to make that connection that these chemicals, at varying levels, in our water supplies, over time, is, in fact, related to our disease process. And it concerns me greatly.

Creativity is not about making 30 songs in 30 days. It's never about demand and supply. No one can possibly do that.

The supply chain is not just the movement of finished goods, but it is also of materials and parts used within the manufacturing process. And so it effects producers and manufacturers and obviously consumers alike.