The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time.
Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible. The moment one gets into the 'expert' state of mind a great number of things become impossible.
I'm trying to make something every time that feels new and surprises people. Hopefully at least one person. But it's not like I turn it off. I don't make a movie and then go back to my normal life. When I'm finishing one movie the next day I'm thinking about the next one.
As we are involved in unceasing thinking, so we are called to unceasing prayer.
I like working, and my brain sort of keeps going whether I like it or not.
While I was growing up, I believed I could do anything I could think of. So the challenge was always to keep thinking - to get to where I wanted to be and then to think of somewhere else to go.
Thinking is compulsive: you can't stop, or so it seems. It is also addictive: you don't even want to stop, at least not until the suffering generated by the continuous mental noise becomes unbearable.
It's so internalized, the way your mind works in relation to anything - it's a process, but then it isn't. It's working all the time.
What I have to write, the story, it is always going on in my mind. What incidences I can add in the story - it is a continuous process.
Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process.
That's the problem with being alive ... You've got to keep thinking of what to do.
Tim Olyphant is a machine. He never stops thinking and being creative.
I'm always writing. There's no stopping. It's just that you can't see it sometimes.
Even on your hiatus, you feel like you need to keep the character in the back of your brain.
