Quotes About Process

I think, generally, the creative process is hurt if you're thinking about the end as opposed to focusing on day-to-day decisions.

It's more difficult for me to get into a character in the lead-up as opposed to leaving it.

I'm always interested with other actors in what their process is, and are they still interested in acting, as opposed to being a star.

To think in terms of what the effect of a story is going to be, as opposed to trying to discover its inner logic, is one of the fundamental dangers in the process.

You just go straight for the reality of the situation. So when I sit down to write, I find myself judging it as I'm doing it, as opposed to letting it free flow.

Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don't have enough of, or the right kind of. It's an ongoing process. The opposite of faith is despair.

I don't compose, actually. I just record. I'm the opposite of a composer in my way of working. I'm more instinctive.

The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.

A key player with respect to sanctions is, of course, China. And so, if a military option were to be exercised, then obviously we would play very heavily in that process. But that's not a decision, fortunately, that the intelligence community makes.

We must make immigration a legal, orderly process to eliminate this issue, not further criminalize it.

I'm actually rather orderly, although the way that I write is not.

The vesicles of the spleen, which form one of the most important elements of this organ in its mature state, are not developed until the period of incubation is near to its completion.

For me, it's always an organic process. I don't personally reach out to artists without the music being created first.

The process of doing a play is an organic one, and the process of doing a film is totally inorganic.

In 'Haraamkhor,' I have explored a few things which I wouldn't have been able to do in bigger films. The process of shooting this film was so organic that it enhanced me as an actor and an artiste.

A lot of these songs just came from day-to-day experiences. And it was a very natural, kind of organic process.

I can't describe how I make a film. It's organic.

Part of being an actor is letting things come about organically as opposed to forcing them.

'Feel It Still' came around pretty much as organically as you can put a song together.

In documentaries, the process is that you film a lot of things, and out of what you've shot, something organically reveals itself, and there's a discovery process.

One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.

The process and organization leading up to cooking the egg can tell you a lot about the cook.

There's not a lot of thinking in my music. I freestyle a lot of things and organize it later, and then it becomes a song.

When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a novel. Writing poetry is a state of free float.