Quotes About Process

I spent about a year and a half doing technical post work on 'The Fountain'. Although I do like the process, I think my favorite part of filmmaking is the actors.

The materials I use are absolutely essential to the work I make.

I work on drawing as a final product.

There is no right or wrong way to write a novel. Each journey is different for every individual work and for every writer. The first error is never to begin; the second is never to finish.

It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens.

The predominant difference between television and film is the pace to which you work, but the development of the character or the process for playing the character isn't necessarily different.

Any song I have to work on longer than a day, I just leave it. It's not gonna work. Everything that's good is really instant.

Writing is nearly always a matter of finding whatever your brain needs to trick it into being creative, and in my case, a tiny little bit of fact just seems to work.

Creativity is part sweat - not just beads of it, but sometimes buckets.

I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time though, uncertainty returns.. your thought process goes on.

All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated; at least, it isn't that way in my work.

Talking about one's work releases the energy and tension to do and make.

A lot of folks just get it in their head that, for instance, like writing memoirs is just easy. You just write down what happened. It doesn't quite work that way.

It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone. I don't want to be too dramatic, but it's hard. It's necessary to start most work alone.

I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.

Out of the work comes the work.

I didn't have to audition. That's common, but it had never happened to me before. Normally, I hate auditioning. I need to stew and think... let the character develop and grow inside me.

When it comes to the effective stewardship of our nation's security - especially during crises - the most successful administrations had three things in common: people, process and policy.

I just thought it was magic that you could stick a bit of paper in some coffee-type liquid and a picture comes out.

I know how to make sausage, and now that I've seen how laws are made, I'll stick with sausage.

I am not very good at sticking to outlines, and I double back all the time to revisit scenes and change things.

I try and write a fair amount in the beginning without the movie. And then when I do get the movie I create these demos, just mock-ups, and I throw them up against the picture and some of it sticks and some of it doesn't. But I'm very careful before I play anything to picture, because that's such a profoundly important moment.

When President Trump took office, he immediately began a process to remove and replace undue regulatory burdens that stifle American innovation and economic development.

I like to be in locations that I kind of feel are very creative, that stimulate me in a creative process.