Every time I get a script in my inbox, it's like a little Christmas present. It's so exciting to see what they've cooked up.
Photography is like fencing. You must keep your distance, wait, and then thrust.
Creative experience foreshadows a new Heaven and a new Earth.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next. Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
...she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.
I think that it's fun to get the script and open it like a Christmas present. That's 'Alcatraz' or anything that I'm working on. If the groundwork has been laid too much, the surprises aren't there.
Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.
For me there's insecurity when you're releasing an album because you spend all of this time working on that one thing and then once it's done, it's done. After you put it out there to the public you never know which songs are going to work or even if the album is going to work as a whole so there is a little bit of nervousness around predicting what the numbers will be and if it's going to be well-received.
The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.
I could almost hear the characters inside, murmuring and jostling, impatient for me to open the cover and let them out.
Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do today, this Salvador Dali.
Whenever people talk about Don and I recording again, which almost everybody usually mentions, I always say 'Well, there's plenty of things that you haven't heard! Plenty of things out there to discover!'
I've spent a lot of time thinking about what the audience would want. That's my job, is to anticipate ahead of the audience.
Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality.
You have to think like a designer. You have to establish the trend four seasons before it becomes popular.
What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn't anticipate when you were making the film, so you just make it as honest as possible.
I have a list of titles that I leave at the [library] desk, because they are bound to be written some day, and it's best to be ahead of the queue.
Delay is natural to a writer. He is like a surfer-he bides his time, waits for the perfect wave on which to ride in. Delay is instinctive with him. He waits for the surge (of emotion? of strength? of courage?) that will carry him along.
