Maybe I'll make one movie a year, maybe two, but it's not going to be more than that because I have other priorities now.
I had so much out there, the world was going crazy about 'Comes Alive!' I didn't need to go and rush into something else. You're only as good as your last record, so don't put one out for a while.
I'm not Akira Kurosawa. He used to write...He used to write a completely new spec script over a couple of nights. I'm not like that. It takes me a long time to put a film together that I want to make.
I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.
Well, I always leave massive gaps between albums.
Thoughts fly and words go on foot. Therein lies all the drama of a writer.
The best I can do is to make a film every two years.
Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
It's hard to regulate the speed at which you can achieve something creative and emotional.
I probably take about a month to write a song, depending on how much time I can dedicate to it, and it depends on how many hours a day there are and how many days in a week and weeks in a month.
It just takes a long time for me [to write a song]. I'm very slow. And it comes, kind of, by dribbles and drops.
I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing and writing and quit.
While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.
Barton Fink got written very quickly, in about three weeks. I don't know what that means.
I've written books that have taken me fifteen years, from first sentence to last, and some that only take three or four months.
I'm such a slow writer I have no need for anything as fast as a word processor. I don't need anything so snappy. I write so slowly that I could write in my own blood without hurting myself.
I seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years.
It took seventeen years to get from my second novel, 'Truck,' to my third, 'Geek Love.'
A new idea is obsolete in seconds, right? I just said it and now it's obsolete.
There's no reason you should write any novel quickly.
Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.
If I were to try to describe the way in which I write, the only word I would use without qualification is 'slowly.'
Danny and I wrote 10 songs in seven days, which I thought might be close to the record until you probably look at some of the Beatles statistics.
Typically, every 14 to 16 months, we're putting a new album out. To be honest, I wish it was slower.
My fans are always upset because I don't do projects frequently and because I don't use social media.
