Mechanical Process Quotes

The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.

'Iron Man 3' was very educational. There's a train that starts moving which already has so many moving parts, and it's a constant process of animatics and storyboards and consulting meetings, and it's a very mechanical process once the script is written. It's sprawling, and they're throwing money at it to get these things accomplished.

The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.

I was mainly a stage actor. I found film acting mechanical, because it was so technical - there was so much technique with the lamps and the movements of the camera.

… an earthworm boring beneath the roots of local self-government by cities and States, burrowing silently yet with incalculable power, loosening the soil, sagging foundations…. He is devoid of any moral nature … a machine himself—hard, impulses, cunning, cute but witless, immovable, inexorable, grinding.

Kissing's a very organic and mechanical process. It's like a slap. You slap your co-star once and it's done.

Going to university is, and should be, so much more than a mechanical process of grinding out a degree qualification for a pre-determined career path.

Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.

Art employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs it for the logical exposition of truth; but the mechanical process is, in the last, ever kept visibly distinct, while in the first it escapes from sight amid the shows of color and the curves of grace.

The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part of the authorities to act slowly and impersonally, in the manner of planets or vegetables.

I think the first take is best, as you are spontaneous, and after that, it becomes a mechanical thing. I don't believe in second take at all.

Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.

Nothing is less instructive than a machine.

Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical.

All polishing is done by friction.

For me, it's a feel thing; it's a mechanical thing.

Film is a machine: you never stop.

The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity.

Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.

I sometimes think I'm a mechanic. I just take pictures.

Intimate scenes or a kiss is a very technical aspect of filmmaking. It is extremely mechanical.

A Rube Goldberg machine is, in its essence, a trial-and-error thing.

We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and conformity and batching people. We have to move to a model that is based more on principles of agriculture. We have to recognize that human flourishing is not a mechanical process; it's an organic process. And you cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do, like a farmer, is create the conditions under which they will begin to flourish.