Quotes About Process

I never really have to sit at a desk thinking, 'What should I do now?' It doesn't work like that for me, and it never has. My thinking process is constant.

Part of making art is learning how you make it best. I'm not great at sitting down at a desk and writing for three hours. I write best verbally, talking through an idea with people, so I do my best work when I collaborate.

I'm impossible when a book is taking shape. Well, actually, I'm despicable.

When I run, I don't ever think about my destination.

When I'm in the studio, I'm very cautious about it because if there's one thing that can destroy music being made, it's any sort of agenda, expectation and/or schedule, or any of that.

I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right.

A writer's job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.

I don't stay in accent or anything, but internally, I get quite dark and destroy myself a little bit. But that's what I do, and I enjoy it. It's how I do my work.

I just write what comes along. I don't have a detailed master plan.

The script determines the costumes. At least that is how I like to work.

The reason 'Detox' didn't come out was because I didn't like it.

The Detroit situation shocked the whole system. Obviously you don't condone any type of fighting. But you've got to make the best decision for you and your family at the time, and you don't have a lot of time to think out that process.

In the process of developing a character, you do, in fact, start to take him on as a personality.

I think that once you start writing songs, you start developing a library of ideas that you can go and take from, so it gets easier as you go.

I'm grateful to be in school developing my practice as an actor. In that process, it's difficult to say that you've definitively 'learned' something.

I have to tell you that we never had any scripts. Jean-Luc never wrote a script in his life. He would write the dialogue that morning before shooting.

The policy is one thing, but it's dictated by what the process is.

I think the way you make a movie dictates the movie that you make.

Process is your friend, but process also dictates what you can do.

I think it's important to cultivate as many people as you can to see which ones you jive with. And it makes you happy. If one dies, you have another one. So living is a process that you have to do by yourself, and if you can learn a few little goodies along the way that might make it easier for you, so much the better.

We can get rid of red tape.

I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape.

In my screenplays - from the very beginning I've always used tape. I talk my screenplays. And then have somebody transcribe them.

First, I'm trying to edit down about 7 hours of material which I made prior to the Cop days and find some way to get it out. This stuff is pretty out there, mostly sonic collages and tape manipulations.