Quotes About Process

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

For me, it's painful to make a movie. It's not my normal rhythm.

When I begin to write a story, I usually know how things will end. It's the journey toward that point I must discover. The process is sometimes painful, but also exciting.

There's nothing more painful than writing.

I eventually want to do writing on all the films, but not necessarily to be the writer. Writing is a painful, painful thing; it really is.

Sometimes, trying to make a work of art can be very difficult and very painful.

Since I began making movies, I've always looked for screenwriters instead of going through the long and painful process of writing.

I think being creative is incredibly difficult and painful.

For me, filming is always like delivery pains.

Sometimes I write what I can't paint, and I paint what I can't write. I use a different part of the brain.

You just don't know when you get all the paint across the canvas how it will turn out. When you step back after you've finished, you say, 'This one is not so good. This one is good.'

If I had to pick an artist that I look up to and am inspired by, it's Matisse because of how many times he would paint the same idea until he felt like he maybe got it right, and I try to do the same thing with my writing.

I know how to paint... In a way there is a boredom there because a lot of the magic is gone.

Movies would be like a broad painted canvas... or a mystical process which cannot really be explained, like, 'What is electricity?' Along with the images that go on the screen, there's a corridor of dialogue that can happen through motion pictures, whether you're aware of it or not.

I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.

My painting does not come from the easel.

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.

An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting. To me, that's the way it should be with film as well.

I found I have to stay painting.

I think when you work alone - the way I do it, anyway - you could sort of liken it to painting, where there's sort of a one-on-one with the canvas.

My process is really quite organic, and starting a painting is one of the best parts for me. I always start in quite a loose and free way. I often put down one ground colour to begin with and then play off that.

When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making.

In painting feathers, you want to create the look of feathers, but if you try to paint all the feathers, you have nothing but disaster.

If I'm painting, I paint every day. I'll be up in the studio from 8:00 in the morning to 8:00 at night.