Quotes About Process

Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.

Everyone should write a book, if only to see how much work goes into even the slight volume I send you.

The work of creation is never without travail.

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits. That's it in a nutshell ... In order to be creative you have to know how to prepare to be creative.

Growth is a process of experimentation, a series of trials, errors, and occasional victories. The failed experiments are as much as part of the process as the experiments that work.

All creativity is a work in progress.

The actual work of recording a record or making a film just requires that you consciously block the time out to do that and nothing else. That's what I do.

Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead of me.

Don't ask a writer what he's working on. It's like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease.

The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In what tone do you begin? I almost have to have a scene in my mind.

My life isn't focused on results. My life is really focused on the process of doing all the things I'm doing, from work to relationships to friendships to charitable work.

I like working intensely, then going away and thinking about it, working out why it didn't work and then coming back to it. It makes the work richer, I think.

The real skill of being a writer is being able to take your inspired moments, and make them work as a whole, through the unromantic, daily hard work.

The process of rehearsal means you learn so much and really get the chance to develop your work on a character.

I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it's a lie already at work.

My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.

The boring side of business is what makes it work.

I work on fittings, mostly. You know, I sketch less and less in my work. I sketch for the show sometimes, but then it becomes more conceptual. But when I don't sketch, it becomes more pragmatic.

I always work with the same composer, his name is Ali Helnwein. I don't have a musical background.

For a solo work I need a definite idea. For the present I have none.

There is no work of art that is without short cuts.

Every time I make a record, it's kind of like scarification or something. You work 15 hours until you're stupid. You're just kind of all jittery.

My work comes first, reasons for it follow.

That's the way I work. I get it all plotted in my mind, and then I write it down.