Quotes About Process

What I have to write, the story, it is always going on in my mind. What incidences I can add in the story - it is a continuous process.

When I choose a script, I ensure that I get to contribute to the film in some way and, in turn, grow as an actor in the process.

Songs are not on a conveyor belt. I'm not chopping them up and putting them out.

I don't want to talk too much about the nitty-gritty of writing. It's rather like a pressure cooker with a certain amount of pressure in it - the more you let out, the less you cook.

People don't understand how long it really takes to find beats. Sometimes they're not all the way there, but it's elements in them I love. Then I get to take them to get chopped up. Ye got to cook over a few of them.

I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.

I score everything by hand on manuscript paper and then make copies.

I want to show the absurdity on the process of putting a value to a copy.

I think of what I do as copying nature's design process.

The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.

I don't think I've ever spent more than an hour on any one song, but that doesn't count the thinking that goes on beforehand.

I don't sit at home and craft a joke.

I enjoy the challenge of trying to say things beautifully. The message is secondary in that sense. Obviously, I have something that I want to say that's very, very important to me - but the process of actually crafting it is essential.

Writers who sit down and write might judge what they're putting down, but I always just try to barf it out. I'm writing crap, but I'll put it down.

Creating anything is hard.

I go through a whole process with the actors first, building and creating characters, then I encourage them to sort of live in that character when they're in the screen.

I am still the place where creation does some work on itself.

Writing isn't about the process. It is about creating. The joy comes not from the process but from the creation.

I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!

I like creation even if the process is always a bit difficult.

Having a hit is fine, but doing the work is what I want. I get more excited the day of creation than once it's big.

To be here drinking a Coke can influence the process of musical creation as much as anything.

Yes, money is important. But it's all about the creative process.

I love the idea of having control over the creative process and looking at the bigger picture.