Lonny Price Quotes

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.

There are many, many things in my work that need redoing - never the structure.

I'd like to do radio just like pictures - leave the imperfect stuff on the cutting-room floor.

Instead of a dedicated room, my best trigger is the actual habit of reading over the texts from the day before. Marking. Changing. Fussing. This ritual amounts to a habit of trust. Trust that I can make it better. That if I keep trying, I will come closer to something true.

If you get a sense that your writing isn't quite working, change it. Or cut it out. Don't just tell yourself it'll do, because it won't.

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

To be honest, I rewrote 'Wicked Nights' a number of times. I just wasn't happy with the end result.

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.

I read what I write over and over and make corrections and improvements, until I reach the conclusion that the material deserves to stand on its own.

I am usually protective of my work, not showing it to anyone until it has been redrafted and polished.

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Well, once we finish something, I can't really listen to it because all I hear are problems.

Even though you strive for perfection, you're never going to play the perfect game.

I don't watch my old films like 'Roja,' 'Dil Se' because I only see mistakes. I see five minutes of the film and I am scared I will start finding mistakes in them.

I don't publish anything I haven't worked over 100 times.

After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting.

I love revisions...We can't go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest.

I used to play works in progress to people, but now I wait 'til it's finished, because you make excuses all the time: 'Well, there's gonna be an orchestra on it.' Rather than make excuses, wait 'til it's finished, and then they can say they don't like it.

Nobody wants to watch perfection.

The whole joy of writing comes from the opportunity to go over it and make it good, one way or another.

I rarely come away from presenting the 'Today' programme without some sense of regret. There is always some question that I should have asked, or some point that I should have made. This is annoying but not surprising. Perfection is hard to achieve in a three-hour live programme.

It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are the early versions of my novels.

So when I go home, sometimes, even when I had an amazing game, I always think about what I missed.

If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.