You can never really relax until you've signed that contract with your team.
Everything stinks until it's finished.
I was fascinated with the writing process and seeing the evolution of a sketch and how it would change up to the minute before it went on the air.
I don't ever land on an album title until I know exactly what's going on the record, because you never know until it's all said and done.
Everything stinks till it’s finished.
Whatever we think out, whatever we take in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally finished, that the world, if it must alter, will only have to spoil it; we have then nothing to do but unite the severed, to recollect and restore the dismembered.
When a piece is done, I mix it before going on to any other piece.
[Writing] is edit, edit, edit. It's almost like getting a boat ready to go to sea. You've still got a countless number of things left to fix, but you've just got to go, "O.K., everybody get on the boat. We're going, ready or not."
What we have to do is put this in a coherent form for them at the end of the day, and on the big events, give them the kind of context that they deserve.
My Dad has been on board for the entire project. He has produced Hello' and made sure that everything is just right this time.
Formulating the proposal is about 80% of the actual time of the process. In the end, the time spent filming, editing and postproduction is a very small proportion of the total time you spend in the production of the film.
We shall make reservation after reservation, amend and amend, until there is nothing left.
It worked exactly as he planned.
First, you have to finish.
Three turns should do it.
Work, finish, publish.
For every issue, I send four pages of finished marginals and they select the ones they need.
no project is completed until its objective has been achieved.
So, the result though is by the time I've got something, it's been worked over so many times that although I do make changes as the end, often by the time I've gotten it, it's pretty much completed.
There is nothing more I should do to it now, and therefore I am not likely to be more ready to go than at this moment.
It's never a done deal until it's a done deal.
When I've finally got the title, I think, "Okay, yes, now I know where we are. Now I know what it is. Fine, that must be finished or nearly finished.
You have to develop your whole game to completion.
The most important quality any piece of writing can have is doneness.
So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.
The one thing finished in this hasty world.
