Quotes About Process

My rule has always been, write the next part of the book that you seem to know well. So I won't necessarily write chapter two after chapter one.

I think every actor wants a certain amount of control. Maybe not control, as such, but just to be part of the process. But it's not necessary, I guess.

The necessity to conceptualise has to come very early on, and defining a vector of development for that film also at the beginning of the process will allow you much more freedom as you go along.

I had this really great amazing thing happen where I almost finished the book and I really needed to come up with an ending and I decided to go back and re-read the book and see if I could come up with an ending.

A negative is never finished.

There are a lot of things behind a negotiation process.

During every book, I have a nervous breakdown. Usually it's about two thirds of the way through the book - I'm just comatose on the couch for at least a week, and I eventually break through it and have an answer about how to fix the thing.

Nest really came out of a process where I was trying to design the most connected and the most green home that I knew of. I was curious of just about everything that goes into a home and building a home.

I never expect anything; I just go make a movie. I do the best I can, and whatever happens, happens.

The writing life is one long, never-ending search for narrative. Well, it's not even a conscious searching. It happens even while you're busy buying groceries and when you're fast asleep. It's a curse.

In New England, winning isn't some bigger goal, it's part of a process. It's the expected result.

Trying to write new music is definitely daunting, but I try not to overthink it.

When you have new people coming in and you sort of want to show them the ropes, it's always easier to have people that know the process and are able to sort of just do their thing, and then everyone can kind of follow their lead.

I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles.

Everything you care about is getting the next step right: getting the script right, finding the right actors, shooting it. Then you spend half a year in a dark room editing your film, and you don't talk to anybody.

I'm trying to get the record that I made at my birthday party last year, trying to get that out, and the lawyers are diddling around with it and it probably won't be out until next year. I don't know.

It's not clear whether the brain actually is designed to have nightmares or whether this is actually the process going awry.

Usually it takes me about nine to 12 months to write a book.

It generally takes me about nine months from the point the book is conceived to the point my editor sends it off to be typeset.

It took us nine months to write 'The East'; we didn't start writing it on the computer until seven and a half months into it.

Nothing is cut while I'm shooting. I edit between nine months and a year, and usually have around 80 hours of footage I have to get down to an 82-minute movie.

Ninety percent of my material is made on stage, but I feel like you're missing something by abandoning sitting down to write entirely.

I get the impression sometimes that a play arrives in a sequence of events that I have no control over.

I have no control over a film. I don't know what will be left on the cutting floor.