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“When you're working with friends, I think there's a certain sensibility that you share, and it's easy to coordinate your ideas and work together to bring them in a cohesive way.”

Author:Sam Worthington

“When you're working with good people it brings good things out in you.”

People Good Things Good People

Author:Martha Plimpton

“When you're working with movie stars, part of the deal is that, if they have something to say, you'd better listen. You don't have to absolutely listen and not talk, but there is another creative force at work, and to be successful working with movie stars, you have to bring that force to work for you. You have to find something that's comfortable for them, and at the same time, that's in the parameters of what you're trying to do yourself.”

Ifs Trying Force Stars Deals Creative Successful Comfortable Being Successful Movie Star Parameters

Author:Ivan Reitman

“When you're working with other artists, it's often a mix of your ideas with somebody else's, which can be extremely fruitful. But then it's also interesting to present the completely undiluted vision of what I imagine music could be. I care about both my own music and collaboration equally, and I pretty much split my time equally, as well.”

Care Artist Interesting Vision Imagine Collaboration I Care

Author:Sophie

“When you're working with people you've seen in hundreds of films... it's a bit crazy to step outside yourself for a minute and think, 'This is surreal.' But I try not to get too bogged down in that.”

People Thinking Trying Film Bits Steps Crazy Minutes Surreal

Author:Jai Courtney

“When you're working with really good actors, it raises your own game and you get better.”

Actors Games Raises Get Better Good Actors

Author:Richard Dormer

“When you're working with somebody else in that kind of way, you always have to have these guidelines to what you're doing - especially when you're working with your sibling. But when you're working by yourself you're free to do whatever you like.”

Way Kind Sibling Guidelines

Author:Eleanor Friedberger

“When you're working with the best of the best, I'm not gonna put that on hold so I can work with people who studied the best of the best.”

People I Can Best Of The Best

Author:Shia LaBeouf

“When you're working with the best, it helps you to be good because then you are focusing on what you have to do.”

Helping Be Good

Author:Javier Bardem

“When you're working with the same band you kind of know their style inside out, and even when you've been working for seven years with the same people, suddenly they'll do something you didn't even think they were capable of.”

People Thinking Knows Years Kind Style Band Capable Seven Seven Years

Author:Elvis Costello

“When you're working with vibes the music comes right in. The blend is perfect. So to me it was never a mismatch. It was actually pretty complementary.”

Perfect Complementary Vibes Mismatch

Author:Linda Perhacs

“When you're working, nobody's a star. We're all just actors trying to figure it out.”

Trying Actors Stars Figures

Author:Kurt Fuller

“When you're working, you have so many people working around you and being involved. It can get a bit overwhelming. I've just gotten used to it.”

People Overwhelming

Author:Alexandra Breckenridge

“When you're working, you're flying on someone else's buck. When you're flying on your own, you sort of go, 'You know what, I'd rather keep the dosh in my pocket to spend when I get there.”

Knows Flying Pockets Bucks

Author:Luke Evans

“When you're worrying you're not praying. Stop worrying start praying.”

Worry Praying Stop Worrying

Author:LeCrae

“When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.”

Left Brain Cutting Army Remains Soldier Blow Afghanistan Wounded Thank You Navy Rifles Jest

Author:Rudyard Kipling

“When you're writing - when I'm writing anyway - I'm writing out of different kinds of preoccupations and obsessions, different forms of drivenness, and so you're really hostage those while writing. I am, anyway. And it's only when you finally take the finished thing out of the furnace that you see what it was that went into the making of the thing.”

Writing Kind Different Obsession Different Kinds Hostage

Author:W. S. Di Piero

“When you're writing a 25-minute episode that can be anything, sometimes you just start with a character, and you let them walk into the room. Then you let your instinct guide you. That's how we made art when we were 15 years old. And that's so fun to us.”

Writing Art Sometimes Character Fun Instinct

Author:Mark Duplass

“When you're writing a book that is going to be a narrative with characters and events, you're walking very close to fiction, since you're using some of the methods of fiction writing. You're lying, but some of the details may well come from your general recollection rather than from the particular scene. In the end it comes down to the readers. If they believe you, you're OK. A memoirist is really like any other con man; if he's convincing, he's home. If he isn't, it doesn't really matter whether it happened, he hasn't succeeded in making it feel convincing.”

“When you're writing a book, it's rather like going on a very long walk, across valleys and mountains and things [...] The highest mountain on the walk is obviously the end of the book, because it's got to be the best view of all, when everything comes together and you can look back and see that everything you've done all ties up. But it's a very, very long, slow process.”

Writing Looks Long Book Ends Done Together Process Walks Views Mountain Highest Ties Being The Best Valleys Writing A Book Long Walks

Author:Roald Dahl

“When you're writing a book, you don't want it to be overly trendy because you want people to enjoy it for years and refer back to it.”

People Want Writing Years Book Enjoy Writing A Book Trendy

Author:Lauren Conrad

“When you're writing a movie or a play and writing isn't going well, which is for me the normal condition - it's an exceptional day when suddenly I've got something and it's going well - you can call the studio or the producer or whoever is waiting for it and say, "I know I said I was going to have it in by the end of the summer.”

Knows Writing Wells Said Ends Play Waiting Conditions Normal Summer Studios Producers Exceptional End Of Summer

Author:Aaron Sorkin

“When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else.”

Writing Stills Stories Novel Crafts

Author:Howard Gordon

“When you're writing a screenplay every scene needs to change from positive to negative, or negative to positive, and constantly trying to change the values of the movie.”

Needs Writing Trying Values Scene Negative Screenplays Need A Change Trying To Change

Author:Sam de Jong

“When you're writing a script you have the option to embellish on life or switch the order of events or make it generally more cinematic. I would stick too closely to my own experience and not necessarily think about the fact that it needs to have an event happen. Realising that I could channel my own experience into a story that was slightly more cinematic was a very important moment for me - allowing myself to accept that the kind of screenwriting I'm doing is a work of fiction.”

Thinking Needs Writing Kind Important Moments Facts Stories Happens Order My Own Fiction Accepting Events Sticks Scripts Allowing Realising Screenwriting Cinematic Important Moments

Author:Lena Dunham

“When you're writing a sketch, it has to be surrounded by a situation. It can't just be out of the air.”

Writing Situation Air

Author:Leslie Jones

“When you're writing a song and there are five people invested in it, it's easy for one person to say, 'Oh, this song is about this and that', and everyone has to hear the idea and see if they can do better.”

People Ifs Writing Persons Ideas Song Easy Can Do Five

Author:Jason Mraz

“When you're writing a song with someone, it's a very personal process. The music has to be an organic experience, it can't be contrived, sometimes it is and I think people pick up on that.”

People Thinking Writing Sometimes Song Process Picks

Author:Jarryd James

“When you're writing a story in bits and pieces, month in and month out, there really isn't time or space for reflection, no room to learn what those scripts had to teach you.”

Writing Stories Bits Space Rooms Teach Pieces Months Reflection Scripts Bits And Pieces

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“When you're writing a story or an actor playing a role, you should never think of your characters as heroes or villains. You have to think of them as people first.”

People Thinking Should Writing Firsts Character Stories Actors Roles Hero Villain Think Of You

Author:Morgan Neville

“When you're writing a story, you're creating something of an artificial ending.”

Writing

Author:Mary Gaitskill

“When you're writing about something that happened, it helps you transition to the present.”

Writing Helping Happened Transition

Author:George W. Bush

“When you're writing about something that happened, it helps you transition to the present. Ironically enough, by focusing on your presidency, it helps you realize that you're no longer the president. By reliving moments, it helps you stay focused on the moment.”

Writing Enough Moments Helping President Realizing Happened Focused Transition Presidency Live In The Moment Stay Focused

Author:George W. Bush

“When you're writing fiction it's a heightened voice. You're trying to cast a spell, which isn't the same thing as trying to cast someone into it. You are creating a reality but it's a different sort of performance.”

Writing Trying Different Reality Voice Fiction Creating Performances Casts Spells Writing Fiction

Author:Darryl Pinckney

“When you're writing fiction, you don't have notes necessarily. You don't carve it, it's not like a piece of sculpture, it's more like water color.”

Writing Water Fiction Pieces Color Notes Sculpture Writing Fiction

Author:Joan Didion

“When you're writing for a sequel and there's a movie that's been deemed sacred ground by the fanbase that's the predecessor, you cannot do anything to tread on that, so it's a bit trickier than just being able to sit down and write something.”

Writing Able Bits Down And Sacred Just Being Sequels Predecessors

Author:Troy Duffy

“When you're writing for a TV show, what's great is that you always know what actor you're writing to.”

Knows Writing Shows Actors Tvs Tv Shows

Author:Michael Brandt

“When you're writing for newspapers you have all these parameters. You can't swear, you have to use short paragraphs, all that. If you stay within those parameters, you have lots of freedom because you're writing for the next day.”

Ifs Writing Use Next Newspapers Swear Next Day Paragraph Parameters

Author:Chuck Klosterman

“When you're writing for the New York Times someone reading it knows the topic better than you do and knows when you've messed up.”

Knows Writing Reading New York Topics New York Times Better Than You Messed Up

Author:David Plotz

“When you're writing for the screen you're really thinking all the time of what you have to do to make sure that they have the information that they need, that the emotional thread is not snapped, that the story moves at the right speed, to keep the audience hopefully sitting on the edge of their seats or else weeping or laughing.”

Thinking Needs Writing Stories Moving Audience Laughing Information Emotional Sitting Edges Speed Screens Hopefully Seats Thread Weeping Sitting On The Edge

Author:Salman Rushdie

“When you're writing for the screen, you have to be hyper-conscious every moment of how the audience is going to react. If you write just one scene where the audience is confused or it breaks their concentration in some way, then you've lost them, and you might never get them back.”

Ifs Way Writing Moments Might Lost Break Audience Scene Conscious Screens Confused Just One Concentration Hyper

Author:Salman Rushdie

“When you're writing for theater or TV, it's open-ended in scope. You can write 10 separate pieces that are really effective but have no place on a rock record or whatever.”

Writing Records Pieces Rocks Tvs Theater Scope

Author:John Parish

“When you're writing is when the "god should I just drop this" feeling can hit. When you're editing is when the "god this is awful and I've wasted everyone's time and money and will be revealed as a fraud" feeling can hit.”

Should Writing Feelings Awful Fraud Should I Editing Time And Money

Author:Rian Johnson

“When you're writing it's a very solitary job. It's you and your word processor and a cup of tea. It's nice- that again, is another nice thing about being able to do commercials is, you can get out of the house and chase high speed cars around for a few days and then by the time you go back, you're kind of re-infused to write.”

Writing Kind Able Jobs House Nice Car Speed Cups Tea Solitary Nice Things Cups Of Tea High Speed Processors

Author:Paul W. S. Anderson

“When you're writing non-fiction, you go as far as you can go, and then ethically you have to stop. You can't go. You can't suppose. You can't imagine. And I think there's something in human nature that wants to finish the story.”

Thinking Want Writing Humans Stories Fiction Imagine Human Nature Non Fiction

Author:Geraldine Brooks

“When you're writing something and you know it's good, you get flushed, you can feel the blood coursing through your veins, you feel alive, all your nerve endings stand up, something just clicks.”

Knows Feels Writing Alive Blood Nerves Veins Clicks

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“When you're writing something new, writing something that's your own, basically you have nothing else to do except either invent a trick, use someone else's trick, or have no trick and get a bad performance.”

Writing Use Performances Tricks Something New Bad Performance

Author:Nico Muhly

“When you're writing something, and you're putting yourself out there, or you're performing and someone comes in and savages that, then of course it feels personal. It doesn't feel like it's just business, because there's no business - it's not like we're conducting business, this anonymous critic and I. It's just that this person is tearing me a new asshole.”

Feels Writing Persons Courses Critics Performing Savages Conducting Putting Yourself Out There

Author:Michael Ian Black

“When you're writing theology, you have to say everything all the time, otherwise people think you've deliberately missed something out.”

People Thinking Writing Theology Wise People

Author:N. T. Wright

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