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.
While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.
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've written books that have taken me fifteen years, from first sentence to last, and some that only take three or four months.
Barton Fink got written very quickly, in about three weeks. I don't know what that means.
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 seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years.
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.
There's no reason you should write any novel quickly.
A new idea is obsolete in seconds, right? I just said it and now it's obsolete.
Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.
It took seventeen years to get from my second novel, 'Truck,' to my third, 'Geek Love.'
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.
If I were to try to describe the way in which I write, the only word I would use without qualification is 'slowly.'
