John Sandford Quotes

Rush has never been a spontaneous group. We may be spontaneous in our writing, we may be spontaneous as individuals in our day to day lives... certainly I think am and always have been, but I think when it comes to Rush and our presentation of our music it's quite controlled.

I have to stop and think about everything I do. I'm very calculated in a lot of ways.

I don't like spontaneity; there you go. I'm wary of it.

Everything in our society is so purposeful.

My life is pretty calculated.

I think it is manmade. I think it's clearly manmade.

I've never been reckless - it's always calculated. I'm mischievous, but I'm calculated.

Probably careful plotting reflects my personality. I am meticulous by nature. I can't imagine speed-writing anything that happens to pop into my head.

I'm slow to make a decision. I need to think things over for a long time, to weigh the pros and cons, to look at issues 10, 20, or 30 times. But when that's done, I'm quick to act.

Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident.

I like to take my time with things.

I tend to be cautious and rational, prone to keep everything under control.

Everything I do is premeditated.

I like to take my own time, and I don't like to rush. I do take time, and I have patience.

I tend to be very methodical for a variety of reasons. I'm more of a plodder.

I don't think I'm anything like the improviser. I'm not. I do better with at least an outline.

Most of actor's work is done at home, in your hotel room, in the wee hours of the morning thinking and reading and feeling, walking around and listening to music. It really just because an internal exercise, whatever skills. It's great if you have to learn something new for a gig and designing a character physically is always fun but it does become an internal exercise in separating the wheat from the chaff.

Perhaps I'm just too painstaking a type of person, but I can't grasp much of anything without putting down my thoughts in writing.

Don't leave a 'good time' to chance. Experiences have to be woven with care and planning, like a tapestry.

It's almost a work-shopping process to create the characters with the actors.

A character on a page has to feel real, and for me the greatest fun is if you could gender-swap the role.

I don't think you can teach someone how to come up with good characters or a story.

I like to make all my characters interesting. Be they male, female or creatures unknown.

I think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas.

You spend your life training to be an actor, observing people's characteristics so that you can design characters around what you've seen.