The Process Quotes

How do the stems connect to the roots?' 'Where is the mist coming from?' 'Why does one tree seem darker than another?' These questions are implicitly asked and answered in the process of sketching.

I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion.

The struggle for morality never stays won. It's always in process.

A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.

I've never been a big fan of improvisation, because I think you appreciate the process and the cleverness of it more than the actual comedy in most cases.

Film is the cheapest part of the movie making process. The expense is the 100-man crew and the financing and everything.

I've had a couple opportunities where I've been on the other side of the audition process as a director.

Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown any other way to process life.

It's so internalized, the way your mind works in relation to anything - it's a process, but then it isn't. It's working all the time.

Wherever there's capitalism there's this inclination toward simplicity. There's also a human need to process complicated things by turning them into something else.

Language is so inherent to humanity, so necessary for even basic thinking, that stories and poetry are available to anyone who can process language.

I get to work with great photographers, wear lovely clothes, be part of the creative process.

Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is.

In the recording process, sometimes people feel that there isn't a space for them to contribute.

The long takes process doesn't allow for that many takes. In the past I have shot over 50 takes of different shots. Sometimes you end up using take 64, sometimes take four.

The whole of mathematics consists in the organization of a series of aids to the imagination in the process of reasoning.

All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.

Really to succeed, we must give; of our souls to the soulless, of our love to the lonely, of our intelligence to the dull. Business is quite as much a process of giving as it is of getting.

I believe in the immortality of the soul because I cannot conceive of an intelligent First Cause creating human beings through long process of evolution in this world only to destroy them.

It's hard, because when you talk about process or your characters ruling your narrative, it sounds like you have no control, but obviously you're ultimately the author, so you do have control.

What I like about teaching is the discipline of finding words to unpack the artistic process. And I admire the drive in students who want to write, the mystery of how artistic talent unfolds.

Our procedures of deliberation are not ways of finding out independent moral truths but instead ways of "constructing" these truths, in the process of deciding what to do.

The pre-shoot days are so relaxed and fun and the writers are laughing. I love the rehearsal process.

I love the process of creating a character; someone entirely different from myself, and depicting it, either on stage or screen.

[The Rum Diary] is a prestigious movie and it's got a great, talented cast, so they wanted to make sure they had the right person for the role, but it was a torturous process. It was painful.

Im not the kind of person to just sit back and lose something I worked hard on, so, naturally, Ive taken steps to be further involved in a process when most actors arent.

The process of divorce is about loading that blanket, throwing it up, watching it all spin, and worrying what stuff will break when it lands.

All the art of analysis consists in saying a truth only when the other person is ready for it, has been prepared for it by an organic process of gradation and evolution.

The Americans have gone through 150 years of ups and downs, to pull themselves up out of the mud. After only 15 years, Russia is already in the process of liberating itself from the same thing.

When it comes to the challenges of the actual process, I soldier on as best I can, on my own.

We don't want to just tell [students] who the people are, we don't want to just tell them what happened - we want to show the process by which it formed itself.

So March: Book One was the first book I ever wrote. And it was the most terrifying process I've ever been through.

Songwriting requires some sort of ceremony to even get the process started, and it can be somewhat arbitrary.

Critical in this process of wisdom being passed down is that you also need to take it in; you need to listen to it.

One of the beauties of art is that it reflects an artist's entire life. What I've learned over the past 30 years is really beginning to inform what I make. I hope that process continues until I die.

I go way beyond just the wood and stone but to the process of growth and farming and the tensions between the two.

Detect and fix any problem in a production process at the lowest stage possible.

Professional trust is a process, not a state.

The process of acting is no different [playing human or ape]. You're embodying the character. You're creating the psychology and the physicality. You're living the moment.

I love playing real characters... if they're not around anymore it's helpful because you won't get sued! But there's so much research involved and I love that part of the process.

I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.

Losing their names, these things underwent a process of uncreation.

In the process of being metabolized, sugar robs your body of valuable nutrients ... Sugar also inhibits your liver's production of enzymes needed in the detoxification process.

It's the greatest compliment when the writer becomes invisible in the whole process.

Unlike most European countries, the police in the US are decentralized; even the FBI has regional offices. Amending the constitution is a long and tedious process.

Making a film, I've learned, can be an exhausting process, due to the need for backing, distribution, etc.

I don't like the anonymity of the banking process - people now don't have a bank manager they ever meet.

I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.

I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.

To try to help people have babies in a healthy way and to celebrate the process of delivering a child which will be healthy is, I think, almost the best part of healthcare.