Kim Weston Quotes

Part of creating is understanding that there is always more to do; nothing is ever completely finished.

Edits are very important to me - they're the way in which I work on everything.

Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time.

I think my tendency when working is to try and find what's lacking in my current project and then tackle that in whatever I do next.

Few ideas work on the first try. Iteration is key to innovation.

Although every writer dreams of getting it right on the first pass, very few succeed.

Songwriting is like editing. You write down all this stuff - all this bad, stupid stuff - and then you have to get rid of everything except the very best.

Rehearsals make a huge difference.

When you go to a show on opening night, or even the second performance, it is at the very beginning of what it will become. By the end of this run, the show will actually be what it is intended to be.

My first drafts are always terrible, and I hate them, but the process for me is all about writing the bad version until it tells you what the good version is. And then you write that.

I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.

Failing is part of my process. A new bit never works the first time. I figure I have to bomb 7 times to make it good. So I tweak it.

I think it's almost impossible to edit something to death. I think you can make things better almost indefinitely.

Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.

Bring your work back to the workshop twenty times. Polish it continuously, and polish it again.

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

At the start of the process the idea is just a thought - very fragile and exclusive. When the first physical manifestation is created everything changes. It is no longer exclusive, now it involves a lot of people.

I always treat each take as a rehearsal for the next take. That way you can find stuff and keep adding and playing until they tell me to stop.

Over the course of those 12 episodes we discarded what didn't work and kept what did and that refined it.

I move very slowly. It's usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time.

When I write something, I constantly rewrite.

The thing I love about making movies is the peace of mind that I know I don't have to be perfect the first time. I can be perfect the second time or the third time.

I don't think I've ever made something that I'm totally satisfied with. That feeling of doubt, or wanting to do more, is my engine to move forward and make the next iteration.

There are always things we can still learn to perfect.

I will play around with an idea for a very long time until it's found it's feet and it's good enough to become a song.