Quotes About Process

When a film works, the director had a lot to do with that, but the director also didn't have a lot to do with that. There are so many moving parts. It's really about being open to how the river is flowing and trying to get on the river.

Some filmmakers are great at making complex things and films with a lot of moving parts, and I'm just not that way.

I never overtly analyse my own movies, I don't think that's my job to do that. I just muddle through and do what I think is best for the movie.

I consider 'White Collar' my home base. I'm so lucky to get to play a character that's very multifaceted and the writers take risks on and never get into a staid process with.

I'm always working on multiple songs at a time.

On 'Shrek,' Eddie Murphy was locked in as the donkey before we'd even designed the donkey.

There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.

One of the most harmful things in the music industry is 'record-by-committee,' where 10 people from the label gather around, and they make you write a 100 songs and decide which one's a hit. That takes the inspiration out of it.

I just kind of transitioned right out of the dance world into the music industry. I started writing and I just fell in love with the whole process.

My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak.

I really don't have a method. I gravitate towards the organic/acoustic, but I still often complete songs musically before attempting to find the lyric.

It sounds a bit pretentious, but I'm never really conscious of what I'm doing musically.

I remember coming into 'The Lion King' and, oh forgive me Lord, but doubting it. The way that musicals are put together, we're kind of exclusive of each other. And so somebody's working on this in one room, and somebody's working that in the other room. I did not understand how all this was going to come together.

I have a feeling a lot of the records I grew up listening to and the records I still like, as hard as musicians worked making them, I feel like they were really enjoying what they were going through. They weren't just going through the process. You can tell that with certain things that you listen to.

I don't write anything down - it comes from my head and my soul and my heart and my pain. That allows me to make the best music I can make.

Because I feel 'Thor' is the beginning of finding my roots, and I found that I have family in America, I want to take my time and put effort on my future work so that foreign people get to know me better, and I also want to enjoy that process itself!

One of the great advantages of my time spent in movies and in basically every role possible, both in front of the camera and behind the camera, that I've gotten to see all these different ways that people work and the way movies are constructed from the inside out, from beginning to end.

Talking to other people about a part is not helpful for me. It's such an internal and complicated and still kind of mysterious process.

Writing is a mysterious process, and many ideas come from deep within the imagination, so it's very hard to say how characters come about. Mostly, they just happen.

Acting is a mysterious process.

It's still a mysterious thing, making music.

Making art has never been a mystery to me. It's never been something that's very difficult.

There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from.

I don't know - it's a bit of a mystery of how things come about when they do. I don't have a scientific explanation for it. Sometimes when you're writing a song, you don't know where you're going.