“When you're making a film you start living with it, and I find myself sitting down and figuring out a sound or melody that would go with a film, or a particular period. It's not brain surgery, you just kind of feel it along.” FeelsKindFilmSoundBrainParticularPeriodsSittingDown AndMelodySurgerySitting DownBrain Surgery Author:Clint Eastwood
“I create work, and I devote myself to the creative process, and I try to stay pure in that process and be worthy of the messages that I receive. You can't sit down and write 300 compositions in a three-month period and think that you're doing it all by yourself.” ThinkingWritingTryingThreeProcessCreativeMonthsPeriodsPureMessagesDown AndWorthyCreative ProcessCompositionThree Months Author:John Zorn
“Over a four-month period, I sat down and wrote every day. And then there was a novel, and all of a sudden, there were agents and offers.” NovelFourMonthsPeriodsOffersDown AndAgentsSat Author:Melissa Marr
“I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time.” PeriodsBallsDown And Author:Rowan Atkinson
“In many other cultures, and certainly in the Eastern world, there's great value put on being, contemplating, and even withdrawing from the world at certain times or for certain periods of time. But we don't really have that in our culture, so it's difficult for many Westerners to learn how to sit down or lie down and just be quiet without going to sleep. We're just not trained to do it.” WorldLyingCertainValuesCultureDifficultSleepPeriodsQuietDown AndContemplatingEasternGoing To SleepOther CulturesWesternersGreat ValueWithdrawing Author:Shakti Gawain
“I knew that Vaclav Havel didn't want to look into people's eyes, because he said that, when he was being interrogated during the communist period and had been taken to jail, that, if you look directly into somebody's eyes, they can persuade you. And so you can see that so clearly in this interview, where he's looking down.And I kept saying to him as we kept coming - came over here: " You have to look up."And I clearly had no influence on him.” PeopleIfsWantLooksSaidEyeTakenInfluencePeriodsDown AndInterviewsLook UpJailCommunistLooking Down Author:Judy Woodruff