Quotes About Process

I come from theatre and I like the audition process.

I'm sure every author has their own process.

I know very well that one cannot become an author by just writing a book.

My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process.

I really believe that, as an artist, my opportunity to help to bring about awakening is one that should come from a personal process that someone has, and not from me telling somebody that this is the way it is.

When we write songs, we don't ever sit down to write an Old Dominion song. We just sit down to write the best song we possibly can.

Some writers sit down without a thought of what they are going to say, and they go through draft after draft.

Everything I write, I've written the first draft in Austria.

I was fortunate enough to do a docu-series throughout the draft process, but I did that to show the behind-the-scenes stuff.

I see myself as a first-draft writer, so when I sit down to write something, the first draft is usually pretty close to the end draft.

I would go so far as to say that I mostly write terrible things. I mean, my first drafts are so appalling.

First drafts are never any good - at least, mine aren't.

It's such a drag to make a movie.

I'm not one of these writers who says, 'Oh yes, the next book is due out in one year and three days.' I just say, 'You're gonna get it when it's done. It's gonna be good, but you're not going to get it until it is good.'

I really want to complete films in a shorter duration, but somehow it does not seem to happen.

I think being dead isn't any problem. It's the process of dying which is quite off-putting.

I dread first drafts! I worry each day that it won't come, that nothing will happen.

On 'Edge of Tomorrow,' we discovered that movie while we were making it.

Seeing the first edit is the worst.

I'm very interested in the editing process - in all aspects of film-making, really.

When I write a story or think of a scene, I always play some song in the background. Sometimes when I don't add a song at the writing stage, I do it while editing the film.

I always believe that editing is the kind of thing where you want to cut into a scene a little bit after it starts and get out before it ends.

I really enjoyed the process of 'Women in Clothes,' but there's no way I would have done that again. It felt more like being an editor than a writer, and I longed to write again.

It is clear that IDEA '97 not only undermines the educational process, it also undermines the authority of educators.