All Quotes

When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel.
‐‐ Dave Van Ronk

When you're working in front of the camera, there are always things that occur to you after the director has said 'Cut.' I could probably, if I sat down and thought about it, come up with instances where I wished I had made this particular choice or that particular choice.
‐‐ Delroy Lindo

When you're working in public radio, you don't have any money to advertise.
‐‐ Ira Glass

When you're working on a creative thing, everyone has an idea, and they're pushing it. The first time you work with anybody, you have to get comfortable with the way another person pushes hard for what they want.
‐‐ Edward Norton

When you're working on a film, it's almost like photographing paintings at a museum. You're photographing somebody else's world. I just try and interpret it and make it real, and make it what the actors are about, what the director is about, and what the film is about.
‐‐ Mary Ellen Mark

When you're working on a film, it's not theater; you don't have a few weeks of rehearsal. A lot of times you are showing up on set, and you've never been to the place; you've never met the other actors you're working with.
‐‐ Ben Schnetzer

When you're working on a huge, elaborate set that took months to create, and you're surrounded by hundreds of extras, you better remember your lines and know what you're doing in a scene!
‐‐ Kenneth Choi

When you're working on a lake and it's dark and cold out and you can't see what's underwater, it is freaking scary!
‐‐ Jessica Szohr

When you're working on a movie you always hope that people will go for it and enjoy what you're doing.
‐‐ Rick Baker

When you're working on a play like 'Sloane,' that play works; you don't have to worry about that. When you're working on a new play like 'Little Dog,' you have no clue if the play works. You're exploring.
‐‐ Scott Ellis

When you're working on a project that's going to take six years, you're weird from the jump.
‐‐ Richard Ben Cramer

When you're working on film music, you're only working on 20, 30-minute sections at a time.
‐‐ Howard Shore

When you're working well, you don't do research. Whatever you need comes to you.
‐‐ E. L. Doctorow

When you're working with a big star, you always wonder what it's going to be like. Hugh Jackman puts you at ease within 10 minutes. He has such a wonderful energy and is so generous when you're doing a scene. He's just so funny and friendly and playful - he instantly becomes your friend.
‐‐ Cush Jumbo

When you're working with a producer, there has to be chemistry.
‐‐ Kiiara

When you're working with a smaller budget I suppose one of the things that has to be in your mind when you are writing is that you have to keep the characters down to a minimum.
‐‐ Atom Egoyan

When you're working with film, you can only shoot one angle at a time, and then everything has to stop, and you re-light it and shoot everything else from the opposite side, so it's really important that you stick exactly to what's written.
‐‐ Chris Pratt

When you're working with good people it brings good things out in you.
‐‐ Martha Plimpton

When you're working with music that is invariably better than you are, it's difficult to become swell-headed.
‐‐ Andre Previn

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.
‐‐ Jai Courtney

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.
‐‐ Shia LaBeouf

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.
‐‐ Rudyard Kipling

When you're writing a book, with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people who are ordinary, because they are not going to interest your readers at all. Every writer in the world has to use the characters that have something interesting about them, and this is even more true in children's books.
‐‐ Roald Dahl

When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it.
‐‐ E. L. Doctorow

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.
‐‐ Lauren Conrad

When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
‐‐ Oscar Hijuelos

When you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that. Reality simply consists of different points of view.
‐‐ Margaret Atwood

When you're writing a novel, you spend four years sitting in your basement and a year waiting for the book to come out and then you get the feedback. When you do work online, the moment you're finished making it, people start responding to it which is really fun and allows for a kind of community development you just can't have in novels.
‐‐ John Green

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

When you're writing a song, you have to know two things. You have to know who you are, and you have to think about other people.
‐‐ Michael Masser

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.
‐‐ J. Michael Straczynski

When you're writing about people that are not very well off, you seem to see the kitchen sink. So it was a bit of a sort of cosy phrase that got used a bit too much.
‐‐ Timothy West

When you're writing about superpowers, you're writing about power. When you're writing about immortals, you're writing about mortality.
‐‐ Margaret Stohl

When you're writing fiction or poetry... it really comes down to this: indifference to everything except what you're doing... A young writer could do worse than follow the advice given in those lines.
‐‐ Raymond Carver

When you're writing first person, all I can see and tell as the author is what that main character can see.
‐‐ Pearl Cleage

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.
‐‐ Troy Duffy

When you're writing for a show, you're writing part of the script. You have to tell the story.
‐‐ Adam Schlesinger

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.
‐‐ Chuck Klosterman

When you're writing historical fiction, you have to think a little farther into the situation: what the average social interactions were, what was acceptable behavior. What did people think was fun, what did they find unhappy, and why?
‐‐ Alexander Chee

When you're writing in big block paragraphs, you can afford to have a redundant sentence now and then, but the Twitter format requires concision.
‐‐ Anthony Marra

When you're writing, it's all up to you, and you don't have to make any compromises. And when you're directing, there's this intense pleasure you get from working with all these really talented people, and pooling the efforts towards a common goal. I like all the aspects of film-making.
‐‐ Henry Selick

When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world.
‐‐ Michael Ondaatje

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.
‐‐ Geraldine Brooks

When you're writing personal stories, you have to be totally uncompromising - to the extent that you can be - about yourself. I know that if I am uber-uncompromising with myself, that gives me some latitude to write about others.
‐‐ Rob Lowe

When you're writing plays, it's possible to believe you don't have any real world skill. When you're adapting, it is really all about the mechanics, so you feel closer to, I don't know, an accountant or someone who has a body of information. It's not all about temperament.
‐‐ Richard Greenberg

When you're writing stuff that's already clotted with neologisms and trying to get across fairly abstruse concepts, you're already putting a heavy burden on the reader.
‐‐ Alastair Reynolds

When you're writing there's a deep, deep level of concentration way below your normal self. This strange voice, these strange sentences come out of you.
‐‐ John Banville

When you're writing these things, you're in a room making each other laugh, you really have very little sense of political correctness or incorrectness. This is a question that Europe tends to ask and America doesn't.
‐‐ Mike Myers

When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
‐‐ Calvin Trillin

When you're writing, you're conjuring. It's a ritual, and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you're inviting into the room.
‐‐ Tom Waits

When you're writing you're constantly fighting demons to sit down and do what you do. If you listen to the voices outside your head, in addition to the ones inside your head, you'll never get anything done. There's enough inner strife.
‐‐ Melissa Rosenberg

When you're writing, you're in a totally different zone... I can start a difficult poem and look up at the clock and see to my astonishment that three hours have passed.
‐‐ Felix Dennis

When you're writing, you're on your own, and I like to work as a team.
‐‐ Carine Roitfeld

When you're writing, you're only a brain and some fingers, but drumming, you're involving all four limbs, and you're hearing stuff and you're converting your ideas into physical motions, getting physical feedback from things you are touching - it's pretty cool. It's a really a nice contrast to writing.
‐‐ Michael Azerrad