“I'd like my records to reach as many people as possible, but I'm also thinking in terms of how I can keep from getting jaded or unhappy with the process.” PeopleThinkingI CanProcessTermRecordsUnhappyJaded Author:Will Oldham
“If I can have the opportunity to go into an editing room, it's like the golden ticket for me. All I want is to learn about everything else in the filmmaking process. I just directed a music video which just came out and that'd sort of be the area of the field that I'm going to move into, I hope.” IfsWantI CanMovingActorsOpportunityProcessRoomsFieldsAreasVideoGoldenMovieFilmmakingTicketsEditing Author:Nikki Reed
“To this day I over prepare. I draw storyboards for every scene - chicken scratches so crude that they amuse and horrify the crew. I send out shot lists, act out the scenes, and search for a theme that I can relate to. It's my favorite time of the process.” I CanProcessSceneDrawsShotsMy FavoriteListsRelateThemeChickensThis DayCrewScratchesCrude Author:Eric Stoltz
“These are the mysterious ways of knowledge, power and enlightenment. I can only allude to them in words. I cannot possibly explain what this process is like.” WayInspirationalI CanProcessBuddhismEnlightenmentMysteriousMysterious WaysPower Of Knowledge Author:Frederick Lenz
“There are dozens of unfinished or aborted projects in my files, but I can only assume they don't get done because they're not robust enough to struggle through the birth process.” I CanDoneEnoughProcessStruggleBirthProjectsAssumingDozenFilesUnfinishedRobust Author:Grant Morrison
“I am in the process of trying to decide whether I can make a substantive and productive contribution to the policy-making process. I was always there because I wanted to work on the pressing issues of the day - I'm interested in energy, I'm interested in the climate bill and technology policy.” TryingI CanWantedEnergyProcessTechnologyIssuesPolicyBillsClimateContributionProductivePolicy Making Author:Charles Bass
“I never work with an audience - I can't do this. The process depends on the highest degree of nervous concentration.” I CanProcessAudienceDependsDegreesHighestNervousConcentration Author:Frank Auerbach
“I can tell from the tone of his voice and the thought processes in getting to where he's at that there's no point in talking to him further. He wanted to make that decision independent of all other factors and we respect that. [on Damien Martyn retiring” I CanWantedProcessVoiceDecisionTalkingIndependentFactorsToneRetiringNo PointThought ProcessTalking To Him Author:Ian Chappell
“It's my wish that I can help creative people think of new ways to be creative - to get more joy and understanding from their own unique processes.” PeopleThinkingWayWritingI CanHelpingJoyWishProcessUnderstandingCreativeUniqueNew WaysBe CreativeCreative PeopleMy Wish Author:Robert Genn
“All that is happening in art is part of a process of exploration and discovery. I hope to live for a few more years so that I can catch glimpses of the oncoming future.” YearsArtI CanProcessHappeningsArt IsDiscoveryExplorationGlimpseHope To Live Author:Joseph Plaskett
“Love and hate, despite their polar opposites, are both feelings that are induced by passion. I can handle that. It's the indifference I don't know how to process.” KnowsI CanFeelingsHatePassionProcessKnow HowOppositesHandleDespiteIndifferenceLove And HatePolar Opposites Book:This Girl Source: This Girl
“I'm in the process of convincing my parents to sell me their house so I can just live in my childhood bedroom forever. I figure it might make me age slower.” I CanMightAgeHouseProcessParentForeverChildhoodFiguresSellsBedroomConvincingJust Live Author:Pete Wentz
“I love isolation. It's very important for me to have time and space to myself when I can sit and read or write as well as paint. It's all part of the process.” WritingWellsI CanImportantProcessSpaceLove IsSolitudePaintIsolationTime And Space Author:Stuart Pearson Wright
“Styling is my form of painting. I can understand the process behind it, the being afraid to start, and the diving into it. I've learned not to be afraid of doing something that might not be right. If you don't try then you won't know.” IfsKnowsTryingI CanMightFormProcessBehindsPaintingI've LearnedBeing AfraidDiving Author:Lori Goldstein
“I can’t help thinking about memoir as a down-and-up process: Dive down for color; come up for context. Sink back down for action; climb back up for self-awareness and gratitude.” ThinkingI CanSelfHelpingActionProcessAwarenessColorGratitudeDown AndSelf AwarenessCome UpMemoirClimbs Author:Koren Zailckas
“I believed that by a process of what I can only describe as inward dilation of the eyes I could increase my actual vision.” I CanEyeProcessVisionIncreaseInward Author:Paul Nash
“I can't stand theory because it is imposed by the intellectual. And the intellectual is, by definition, not a creative person. The intellectual is a person who talks about the creative process, but often doesn't understand it.” PersonsI CanProcessCreativeTheoryIntellectualDefinitionsCreative ProcessCreative Person Author:Mary Pratt
“I have an acting coach that I work with on everything that I do. The thing about my preparation process for getting ready for a role is I have sex with as many people as I can.” PeopleI CanSexProcessActingRolesReadyCoachesPreparation Author:Aubrey Plaza
“Having gone through editing process, I can see that in actor's faces there's point where they're not managing their performance and that's, I think, the best place to be. You've done the homework, you've learned the lines, at that point you just sort of let it out.” ThinkingI CanDoneFacesActorsProcessLinesGonePerformancesBe YouEditingHomeworkBest Place Author:Ralph Fiennes
“I can't relate to the process of just disappearing and writing a record, all at the same time, followed by the sort of drudgery of going out on tour and trying to recreate the record, playing the same 12 songs every night.” WritingTryingI CanNightSongProcessRecordsDisappearRelateEvery NightGoing OutDrudgery Author:Andrew Bird
“I'm widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I'm not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write.” PeopleWritingI CanProcessEdgesAwakeNot SureEngagedSomething NewBungee Author:Barbara Kingsolver
“I can explain how a person with autism thinks. I am very, very interested in how people think. It's been a gradual process of learning more and more about how my thinking process is different. You know it's bottom up - you take specific examples to make concepts and then I put them in categories.” PeopleThinkingKnowsPersonsI CanDifferentProcessExampleConceptsBottomCategoriesAutismLearning MoreThinking Process Author:Temple Grandin
“You know, I started this process of being a football player and I'm going to make it to the NFL very soon and I plan on finishing that. And by 'finishing that,' I mean that I'm going to go out and be the best that I can be and put everything forth to make that happen.” KnowsMeanI CanHappensProcessPlayerPlansFootballNflBeing The BestFinishingFootball Player Author:Robert Griffin III
“I have always considered myself a fast learner. I try to retain and absorb as much information and knowledge about the [music] business as I can. I don't want to just sit back and have other people do the hard work for me. I try to be involved in every process of my career as possible. I run my own social media, record, and try to vocal produce myself as much as possible, write my own songs, style myself, and learn the business side. If I didn't do acting or music, I was going to school for business. God has put me on this path and I can honestly say I wake up every day doing what I love.” PeopleIfsWantWritingTryingI CanHardRunningSchoolSongSocialProcessSidesMy OwnActingCareersPathRecordsMediaStyleInformationProduceHard WorkInvolvedWake UpSocial MediaHonestlyVocalMusic BusinessLearners Author:Asher Monroe
“I try to see what the dream might be referring to - because the information in the world is being interpreted by my brain which only has the concepts derived from our five senses. So I think of the sequences in my dream as my brain doing its very best to process information in a way it knows I can deal with.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWayTryingI CanDreamMightProcessDealsBrainFiveInformationConceptsSensesSequenceReferringFive Senses Author:Amy Hardie
“I can't be a spokesman for anything other than my own concerns. I have to be free to wrestle with my own preoccupations, and if I'm bringing any political awareness to that process, that mitigates my freedom.” IfsI CanPoliticalProcessMy OwnAwarenessConcernPreoccupationPolitical Awareness Author:Ayad Akhtar
“If I am practicing spiritual poverty, which says that I own nothing, then the problems aren't mine and neither are the energy and compassion pouring through my heart to try to solve them. I am just a link in the process. If I don't take anything personally, then I can do great work without flagging. The Dalai Lama once said, 'Try with all your might - to work very, very hard - to make the world a better place, and if all your efforts are to no avail . . . no hard feelings!'” IfsWorldTryingHeartSaidI CanHardFeelingsProblemMightSpiritualEnergyProcessCan DoEffortCompassionPovertyMinesMy HeartSolveLinksBetter PlaceGreat WorkPouringLamaDalai Author:Bo Lozoff
“I use a different style if I'm speaking to a big crowd; I can gin up folks pretty well. But when I'm in these town hall settings, my job is not to throw them a lot of red meat. I want to give them a sense of my thought process.” IfsWantGivingWellsI CanDifferentUseBigsJobsProcessStyleRedTownsFolksCrowdsSettingSettingsMeatHallsMy ThoughtsGinDifferent StylesThought ProcessRed Meat Author:Barack Obama
“The way I work is that I never let people do an assembly. I don't like it because it shapes the film in a way that I can't really control. To me, editing is making the film and it's a huge process and editors are under-rated.” PeopleWayI CanFilmProcessHugeShapesEditorsEditingAssembly Author:Julie Delpy
“The principal thing is the question of how our culture views age: that old is ugly Just think of Rodin, how he dealt with people of all ages. I have the feeling that I'm alive, I have a body I can make it extremely interesting. That keeps me alive and vital. It's a kind of process of energizing myself by my belief that the classical tradition of art that we've inherited from the Greeks is a load of bullshit.” PeopleThinkingKindArtI CanFeelingsBodyAgeCultureBeliefProcessInterestingViewsAliveTraditionUglyGreekLoadPrincipalBullshitI'm AliveEnergizingRodin Author:John Coplans
“Usually, I'm the kind of actor where you show me once or twice, I can do it. I don't do it creatively, but I know how to do the process.” KnowsKindI CanShowsActorsProcessCan DoKnow HowShow MeI Can Do It Author:James Cromwell