Process Quotes - Page 13

• The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

  Ridley Scott

  Writing, Visceral, Screenplays

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I feel there's so much still to learn about acting. But there is some magic in the capturing of performance and in the process of editing a performance. The psychology of human beings and what's coming through the face... that fascinates me.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Editing, Psychology, Magic

  "Coriolanus - Ralph Fiennes interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I start casting early in the writing process, so I can tailor the script to the gifts of the actors.

  Judd Apatow

  Writing, Actors, Tailors

  "MovieWeb Gets Personal With The 40 Year Old Virgin Director Judd Apatow". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. December 13, 2005.

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• For me, the music is always like the small rowboat I get into at the very beginning of my process.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Music Is

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. May 8, 2009.

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• I've always been interested in the form itself, so I always feel like I've never been good at going ahead with the artifice and not acknowledging the self in the artistic process, and not acknowledging the absurdity of pretending that's required in fiction.

  Dave Eggers

  Self, Fiction, Artistic

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 23, 2005.

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• It's sort of an organic process when you're adapting any book, not even just your own. You want to preserve the heart of the story and you want to preserve who the characters are, but film requires a lot of compression.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Book, Heart, Character

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You can do everything differently in a novel. Hero narrates the novel; we're in his head. You're hearing all his thought processes and you're hearing him call himself out on his bad behavior. You don't have the benefit of that narrator in a movie. What you see a character do, very often, becomes that much more important because you don't have him editorializing it for you.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Hero, Character, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The fact of the matter is, if you have to have a process, I think, to figure out how to make everything work together, you just don't get that. But maybe there's a way to do it.

  Joan Cusack

  Thinking, Working Together, Matter

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. May 26, 2008.

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• I have a deep respect for musicians, and I feel like I would want to be so prepared and so well-educated and deep in the process before I ever release anything.

  Rashida Jones

  Musician, Want, Release

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. April 8, 2009.

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• Because I'm such a studio guy, I really trust my process. I really believe in myself in the studio.

  Balthazar Getty

  Believe, Guy, Studios

  "Balthazar Getty Faces Himself". Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 13, 2015.

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• Do I consider myself a part of the casino capitalist process? No I don't. I believe in a society where all people do well.

  Bernie Sanders

  Believe, People, Casinos

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The process is to me is going onstage night after night after night after night until I get a new hour. And then once that hour is solidified and recorded, I move on.

  Patton Oswalt

  Moving, Night, Hours

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. August 26, 2009.

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• I try to write every day. Sometimes the things come out well, and sometimes they don't. When they come out well you think, Wow, I must be really great; and when they come out poorly, you think you must be terrible, but the truth is that's how any process works.

  Richard Ayoade

  Writing, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm trying to avoid any more asshole roles, at least for a little bit. The main criteria for me when choosing a project is a good director. I just want to work with these guys that I admire because I do want to direct my own films one day, and I want to pick their brains to see what their process is like, and see what I can take from that.

  Dave Franco

  Guy, Brain, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My process in making a music video is pretty much a formula of talking to the artist. I've never made a video where I didn't talk to the artist before I wrote the treatment. Basically, I enter into it knowing we are collaborators.

  Adria Petty

  Artist, Talking, Knowing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Andrew Bird

  Arbitrary, Songwriting, Ceremony

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If I spend all my time being upset about having lost a job, then the next however many auditions I have are going to be useless. So as you're going through the process, you get excited and put your all into it. But you don't get carried away, because until you do the thing, nothing hasn't happened yet. The rest is just talk.

  Henry Cavill

  Jobs, Upset, Useless

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2013.

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• We are all in the process of becoming.

  Audre Lorde

  Graduation, Becoming

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• I do send out information about my books. Very few people buy the books that way, but I always feel that if they want to know more about the process, they can get the information from my books.

  Richard Curtis

  Book, People, Want

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• In the process of developing a character, you do, in fact, start to take him on as a personality. It's part of my job.

  Richard Gere

  Jobs, Character, Personality

  "New Again: Richard Gere". Interview with Andy Warhol and Maura Moynihan, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 28, 2012.

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• I think filmmaking should be a wonderfully free collaborative process, and it so very rarely is. I often see directors as jailers of my talent.

  Gary Oldman

  Thinking, Directors, Talent

  Interview With Randy Sue Coburn, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 7, 2012.

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• I'm very keen. Adaptations of other people's work, too. I got fascinated by the adaptation process, so I think that'd be a really interesting task. I would happily write original screenplays as well. I think it's become one of my favorite genres.

  Emma Donoghue

  Writing, Thinking, People

  "Room" Author/Screenwriter Emma Donoghue on Her "Deeply Feminist" Film and Industry Sexism". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. October 16, 2015.

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• I can't do modeling disconnected. And I thought, "What do I like? What do I love about modeling?" And what I love is that it's such a creative process, with a bunch of people, and I wanted that more, which is how the acting thing came about.

  Agyness Deyn

  Love Is, People, Creative

  Interview with David Amsden, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 16, 2013.

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• That's always been the process of our music, in a sense, keeping it simple, not being so heavy that you are beating people over the head, it's just weighted down and it's like, "oohhh I can't relate." People are able to relate because we talked about things that everyone has experienced, it doesn't matter your race or genre. Music was your mainstay. There was something in our element of music that connected.

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad

  Simple, Race, People

  Source: jessemuhammad.blogs.finalcall.com

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