Slow Production Quotes

Making movies is a hard thing, and it's slow. So you can glorify the product, but the process is difficult no matter who you are.

I probably write a poem every 50 years.

I'm happy I'm doing films at a slow pace rather than doing anything and everything.

We've been around about 20 years and we only have, what, two records? We're not terribly prolific.

I take a very long time to write my books - from five to ten years.

I don't believe in doing 20 films a years and being on number one, number five or anything that kind.

I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time because I like to be careful.

The film project has been “twenty years of constipation,” and he likens the Hollywood process to “trying to grill a steak by having a succession of people coming into the room and breathing on it.”

I used to work in TV and quit the job because I couldn't do it any more. I quite like taking my time over a film, five years is how long it takes me to work something out. And when you just do quick turnover, turnaround, I'm literally this is driving me mad, I want to find another living. I'll just have to find a creative way to tell the story.

A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.

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.

I don't believe in making a record and rushing it.

I have a kind of old-fashioned, artisan approach.

Production speed is severely slowed down if one works with half-time people who have other obligations as well. This is at least a factor of four; probably it is worse.

It's always been about shelf life. Long-term parking, not short-term. That's why I take the time that I do when I write.

I would say that I don't make music quickly; like, my process has been very slow, and my bar is very high, and I don't really rush to make music just to get something out there.

I make one film in three years, if I go wrong it will take me another three years to prove myself.

You know in Hollywood, everything is more talk than action. Every project takes a long time to get off the ground.

I feel like I spend most of my time in a state of writer's block! When things do come out, they come out quickly.

The songs started as a soundscapes, and then came the words and music; each song took at least a year to make.

It's a long process for me since I am unable to write a script faster.

It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again.

I am someone who likes to take my time. I do one album in three years, unlike others.

If I could have somehow been the kind of artist who could crank out two or three issues a year, that's different. That's sort of what it's all about, to get this thing out so that there's some kind of continuity. But to do a comic book every year or two was just so anti-climactic.

Some people, like Leonard Cohen, write one album every 10 years, and labor over a song for five years at a time.