Process Quotes - Page 25

• I'm not really attracted to action sequences, because my experience is that it's quite a slow process to shoot them, and often we're not involved as actors.

  Ewan McGregor

  Actors, Action, Involved

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Surrealism is merely the reflection of the death process. It is one of the manifestations of a life becoming extinct, a virus which quickens the inevitable end.

  Henry Miller

  Reflection, Becoming, Viruses

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.194, New Directions Publishing

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• The digital process gives me total control over how I want the film to look. The films look like they did when I was first looking through the viewfinder.

  William Friedkin

  Giving, Looks, Want

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Arriving to class late is disruptive of the learning process. I think that it is disrespectful to both the instructor and the students. I generally find a problem with students being tardy to my 9:10 a.m. class, in which students would come in thirty minutes late to this fifty minute class. I started locking my door at 9:15 second semester.

  Patricia McCormick

  Thinking, Doors, Class

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• If you work in the city long enough, it begins to deal with you on a personal level. Streets reveal their moods. Sometimes the signal light loves you. Sometimes they fight you. When you're hunting for a new building, you hope the city is on your side. You have to use a little bit of thinking--you might call it the process of elimination--and you need a little bit of instinct, but not too much of either. If you think too hard, you overshoot your target and end up at the Pier or the Tenderloin. If you relax and let the city help, the destination does all the work for you.

  Scott Adams

  Love You, Fighting, Thinking

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• Anxiety is not only an inevitable part of the writing process but a necessary part. If you’re not scared, you’re not writing.

  Ralph Keyes

  Writing, Anxiety, Scared

  Ralph Keyes (2003). “The Courage to Write: How Writers Transcend Fear”, p.22, Macmillan

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• Ruskin's much-derided moral theory of art was part of an attempt to show that this human activity, which we value so highly, engaged the whole of human personality. His insistence on the sanctity of nature was part of an attempt to develop Goethe's intuition that form cannot be put together in the mind by an additive process, but is to be deduced from the laws of growth in living organisms, and their resistance to the elements.

  Kenneth Clark

  Art, Law, Personality

  John Ruskin, Kenneth Clark (1991). “Selected writings”, Penguin Group USA

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• Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.

  Fred Wilson

  Team, Communication, Mean

  "The Management Team - While Building Usage" by Fred Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2012.

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• It's very much like a torture sometimes, the process of trying to get rid of an accent.

  Penelope Cruz

  Trying, Sometimes, Accents

  "Pedro Almodóvar and Penélope Cruz". Interview with Maria Delgado, www.theguardian.com. August 4, 2006.

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• Law is a process. If there is equality of process for everybody, then that's our definition of justice. Whether or not what is done is right or wrong, you follow the process. And so, the end result is just by definition within that alternative universe that is American law. Most people still operate within a moral universe where principles of good and bad and what is right and wrong in itself, and not just as a result of the process.

  Francis George

  Law, Justice, People

  Source: www.realclearreligion.org

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• One thing I like about writing is that it provides such a wonderful opportunity for confidential chats with readers. In the privacy of writing, and reading, we can discuss topics that are a little touchy, a bit embarrassing, and feel less alone in the process. Feeling consumed by memories from high school. Feeling wimpy. Feeling time-obsessed. Yearning for our fathers. Wishing we were taller, or shorter, or less average. To name just a few.

  Ralph Keyes

  Memories, Father, Reading

  Source: writerunboxed.com

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• For me writing and filmmaking is a therapeutic process. It reflects themes that I'm going through at a time in my life.

  Mark Webber

  Writing, Theme, Filmmaking

  Source: www.lasplash.com

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• I do believe that when we're in the process of dying, that all these emergency circuits in the brain take over. I base what I'm saying not on any empirical evidence. I think it's very possible that when you're dying, these circuits open up, which would explain this whole white-light phenomena - when people clinically die and they see their relatives and stuff and say, "Hello, it's great to see you."

  Stephen King

  Believe, Thinking, Light

  Interview with Andy Greene, www.rollingstone.com. October 31, 2014.

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• What is happening in politics today is a similar process to what happened in the medical world a few decades ago: realizing that there's more to healing than just addressing symptoms. Primary paradigm when it comes to dealing with political and social disease is allopathic: Pass a law, lock someone up, engage in warfare. And the state of the world today makes it clear that such allopathic measures have not exactly brought peace to all.

  Marianne Williamson

  Healing, Law, Political

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• That's the one thing I say about the great British shows. You know, I see it on the series on HBO where the season is shortened to like 12 or 6 or whatever it is. You know there's a reason why there's a quality behind that. Because I think the writers as well as the crew and the cast do get burnt out after doing continuous episodes after and over and it feels like a factory rather than something of a creative process. And we get tapped out. That's just my opinion.

  Hayden Panettiere

  Thinking, Hbo, Creative

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Climate change is a process that typically is non-linear. Even upon examination, it lives in comparison with other moments.

  Sebastian Copeland

  Climate, Examination, Moments

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The editing process, to use a slightly grim analogy, is like the slow suffocation of lots of babies. It's like, which finger do you want to cut off first?

  Edgar Wright

  Baby, Cutting, Editing

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• The basic paradox about sex is that it always seems to be offering more than it can deliver. A glimpse of a girl undressing through a lighted bedroom window induces a vision of ecstatic delight, but in the actual process of persuading the girl into bed, the vision somehow evaporates.

  Colin Wilson

  Girl, Sex, Offering

  Colin Wilson (1988). “The Misfits: A Study of Sexual Outsiders”

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• The normal routine is always the same thing whether it's on a new movie or a new job - there's always a process of getting to know one another. I think part of what makes movies special is that it is a relatively intimate environment and it's pretty short-lived - you get to know one another very quickly.

  Adrien Brody

  Jobs, Thinking, Special

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I'm in total control. I write the songs, decide what to sing and how to sing. I even control the recording process. But, with a film, there is no control at all.

  Norah Jones

  Song, Writing, Film

  "My Blueberry Nights - Norah Jones interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• And when you're with a great crew like we had, it becomes a thrilling, again, collaboration, which is to me one of the great aspects of the process that you go through. I find myself at this point in my career, getting potentially, incredibly bored if I stand around a lot, so that's why I really like the pace of television.

  Glenn Close

  Careers, Bored, Collaboration

  "Glenn Close Embraces Damages". Interview with Evan Jacobs, www.movieweb.com. October 24, 2007.

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• Just to be part of a process where you hit no professional speed bumps and you're just sort of going on and on. I'm surrounded by these people that are all so collaborative and all bring things of their own to the process. For them to be alive in the scenes so you don't have to worry.

  Josh Peck

  People, Worry, Bumps

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• You can't really make something or make a movie and feel all through the process that it's a painful thing. It's not possible to do that.

  Takashi Miike

  Painful, Painful Things, Feels

  "Audition director Takashi Miike wishes he could make Ted movies". Interview with Sam Fragoso, www.avclub.com. October 10, 2015.

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• On the times when I used to make movies that were with a lower budget, nobody was expecting it to be a hit, and nobody was paying attention to what I was doing, and it was a free type of creative process. So, one way to reset myself is to go back to that kind of moviemaking.

  Takashi Miike

  Creative, Attention, Way

  "Audition director Takashi Miike wishes he could make Ted movies". Interview with Sam Fragoso, film.avclub.com. October 10, 2015.

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• Just coming to terms with the fact that I got to play April Wheeler [Revolutionary Road] and Hanna Schmitz [The Reader] in one year, let alone in my lifetime. I'm very, very aware of how rare that is as an opportunity for any one person. I can't tell you how much I've been able to take away from these experiences creatively. I really, really learned so much about acting, about myself... all of those things. It's difficult to talk about the actor's process without sounding like an arrogant asshole but they really were very challenging.

  Kate Winslet

  Opportunity, Play, Years

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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