Creative Process Quotes

"When I'm in the studio, I let everything evolve naturally" "Be religious about creating content every single day." "All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know" "When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it." "The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress." "When I was a screenwriter, I was doing the work so that I could keep making a living. I wasn't really thinking, I want to be remembered for writing this movie" "Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt use it—don’t cheat with it" "In order to write about life first you must live it" "Every time I've made a radical change it's helped me feel buoyant as an artist. " "It’s very important that the film reveals something to you about the artist that makes it." "I don’t think film is like other art forms in that it’s a thing; it’s not a finished object, it’s an experience" "Novels are a marathon, while screenplays are a sprint" "What I enjoy most are the challenges that the writing process presents" "A writer often needs he has been untrue to himself in the process of writing." "I learned working with the negatives could make for better pictures " "Because, if one is writing novels today, fieldwork is more and more a lost art. Take all the time you need, sit down with people, and dig deep. Galaxies may be infinitesimal, but no detail is too small." "Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row." "The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him." "The best experiences I've had on films are the ones where you really connect to the material and the director." "Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity."