When you work on an album for three and a half years, you're kind of ready for it to get out there. To have your songs reach people.
‐‐ Kimbra
When you work on big commercial movies, of course there's more money involved and you can still do some good work. But with an independent, you get films that are really close to the writers' and directors' heart. Somehow it becomes a little deeper. A little more meat and not as much flash.
‐‐ Dennis Haysbert
When you work on something in an edit room with just a couple of other people, you never know how it is going to be received.
‐‐ Marshall Curry
When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become supernatural. The hypothetical and the theoretical can become literal.
‐‐ J. J. Abrams
When you work on these films for so long and so intensely, when you get to the end of them, suddenly there's nothing to do.
‐‐ Byron Howard
When you work on your own life, you are less likely to hyper focus on the imperfections of your husband.
‐‐ Martha Quinn
When you work out or you're doing anything active, it's more fun as a group. You may lose track of the time, and the next thing you know, you're working out for two hours because you're having fun.
‐‐ LeBron James
When you work really hard for something for a long time it's almost impossible to believe that it's coming true.
‐‐ Robert Crippen
When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and react to the movie.
‐‐ Karl Urban
When you work somewhere and you feel comfortable, you don't want to leave. You want to stay there forever.
‐‐ Felix Hernandez
When you work too much, you are boring - that is possible. But to have a happy life, if you can do several things in the correct way, that is perfect.
‐‐ Diego Della Valle
When you work with a DeNiro or Hoffman, they love what they do so much that there's never any competitive vibe. It's more about how do we do this thing together.
‐‐ Edward Burns
When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.
‐‐ Barkhad Abdi
When you work with a legend as I do, it's wonderful. There's so many things I've learned working with Keith. He's so patient, not only with me, but with everyone in our crew and with the audience and with the game. He has a style that is so easy and will never be copied.
‐‐ Dan Fouts
When you work with actors, what you're hoping to absorb is good ways to be an actor as opposed to how to handle being famous.
‐‐ Domhnall Gleeson
When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.
‐‐ Lucy Liu
When you work with David Lynch, you never know where he's going next and that's exciting. He's like a magician pulling out new tricks.
‐‐ Richard Beymer
When you work with directors who really love actors, who love their contribution, it feels amazing. But sometimes when you work with directors, you feel like you're in the way.
‐‐ Ruth Negga
When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment's notice.
‐‐ Clint Eastwood
When you work with kids, people tell you to be very delicate, but that's the last thing you should do with kids. They feel patronized if you're like that. They just want you to be normal.
‐‐ Alfonso Cuaron
When you work with people for a long time, you start to sense what they are thinking without having to communicate explicitly.
‐‐ Josh Fox
When you work with people who are so passionate about their product it's kinda inspiring.
‐‐ Dominic Cooper
When you work with Ray Charles, Billy Eckstine and Frank Sinatra, and you tell them to jump without a net, you better know what you're talking about. Thank God I was ready for it.
‐‐ Quincy Jones
When you work with Sir Anthony there are days when he will do a lot of takes if he's really enjoying a scene.
‐‐ Claire Forlani
When you work with somebody else, you automatically get a mixed voice. You hope it will benefit the story. But you don't know what the result will be.
‐‐ Gene Luen Yang
When you work with somebody you have chemistry with, it's easy and it's fun. You hardly call it work.
‐‐ Joe Lando
When you work with the same people for 10 years, they become family. Now when I see them - it might not be for nine months - but when I see them, it's great.
‐‐ Molly Sims
When you work with web design companies in San Francisco, you end up with a bunch of twenty-somethings who have their own cultural peculiarities, including obscurity for its own sake. You give those guys a website for a banking institution and they screw it up, because they are designing for themselves.
‐‐ Brenda Laurel
When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
‐‐ Khalil Gibran
When you worked in a studio it was the studio system that you kind of missed because it was a big, big family. I mean MGM had 5,000 people working a day there. You miss it.
‐‐ George Sidney
When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.
‐‐ Jay Asher
When you write a book, you are asking someone to make an investment in their time and money. A column can come and go as the weeks pass, but a book needs to be timeless.
‐‐ Regina Brett
When you write a book, you're an expert, and people look at you in a different way.
‐‐ Martha Stewart
When you write a high-tech thriller, and then people in the defense establishment start calling you - people I can't name - you feel you've hit a nerve.
‐‐ Daniel Suarez
When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.
‐‐ Sidney Sheldon
When you write a novel, you never have to be in the service of the reader. My only concern with my books is that the world that's created be as logical and whole as possible.
‐‐ Hanya Yanagihara
When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and the melody and the harmonies and take them as they come.
‐‐ Sam Shepard
When you write a program for Android, you use the Oracle Java tools for everything, and at the very end, you push a button and say, 'Convert this to Android format.'
‐‐ Larry Ellison
When you write a script, you always think about what your heart is asking.
‐‐ Olivier Megaton
When you write a song, a song has longevity.
‐‐ Smokey Robinson
When you write a song, it may come from a personal space, but it very seldom actually represents you. It comes out of a sort of mood of melancholy, somehow. It's almost theatrical.
‐‐ James Taylor
When you write a song, the goal is not to convey the details of your life. You should write a memoir or something if that's what you're going to do.
‐‐ Conor Oberst
When you write a song, there's no point keeping it to yourself.
‐‐ Iwan Rheon
When you write a song, you don't ask if it's good or not, or if it's gonna sell. When you write a song, you ask whether you've reached deep inside your heart and whether it's honest.
‐‐ Michael Masser
When you write a story, it just flows and you don't control it. It's subconscious.
‐‐ Imtiaz Ali
When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.
‐‐ Jean-Marie Le Pen
When you write about a Muslim woman, like I did with my previous novels - 'Minaret', for example, which is about a woman who starts to wear the hijab - it sets all the alarm bells ringing.
‐‐ Leila Aboulela
When you write about animals, of course, you are really writing about the people who love and live with them. Animals mirror and reveal us. Dogs in particular are often reflections of us, and what we need them to be.
‐‐ Jon Katz
When you write about faith, people will be upset with you no matter what. I've heard from readers who were disgusted with the depiction of monotheistic religion. I've also heard from readers who were upset because my portrayal of faith did not adhere to their specific doctrines. Fortunately, I have high risk tolerance.
‐‐ Rae Carson