Preparation Phase Quotes

I think it's important to say typing in the computer is like the last, last phase of my writing process. That's kind of the fun part. Well, it's all somewhat fun, I suppose. But usually what happens is I think about a movie for at least a year - maybe a couple more - and I don't put anything down.

When I research a role it does get a little crazy and maybe even a little stupid.

I usually write things in my head before I ever write them down. When I write it out, usually I've already figured out what it is I'm trying to do.

Lots of artists who paint have the experience to one degree or another... where their thinking doesn't precede their doing... It's a funny thing, what I really hate yet I have to go through with it, is the preparation.

It's difficult to just let go of a character. Especially after you've been preparing and researching for weeks.

The thing about movies is that till it goes on floors, it's just preparations for the film.

I've got to warm up to warm up and then play. I understand that now.

Everyone talks about success, but what happens before? There's always something you have to overcome.

If my career was a basketball season, I'm in the pre-season still. I'm not blowing everybody out by 40 - there's so much work to be done, and there's no time to really sit and look back and be proud of what I've done yet, because it's the pre-season still.

I think the biggest thing, even from Day 1 after the draft, was coach DeFillipo being very detailed with everything.

I find myself working ten steps ahead of where I actually am on my laptop or keyboard, but I know what the ten steps are. I just haven't got to them yet.

I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper and wait to write. I don't function that way. I go through a long period of gestation before I'm even ready to write.

There's a point I can get to where I start writing character and then through the dialogue, after all of this preparation, the thing starts to feel like it's a character developing through the dialogue. A lot of character traits do come from writing dialogue, but I have to be ready to do it.

If you ever watch me at theatre rehearsals, you will know what a bad actress I am. I am bad... bad... bad... and then, by opening night, it all just falls into place.

Basically, I really like to train. That's what keeps me busy during the offseason - just training and getting my body right and getting ready for the next year.

My research process doesn't vary much. I do a little reading to establish a timeline and decide how I'm going to approach the story.

It's always good to go over the recipe beforehand, so you can easily think of the next thing that needs to be done.

We put everything we have into the offseason.

If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I'm ready to start writing.

He who wishes to fight must first count the cost

At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it.

I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I'd been thinking about it a long time.

Thank you... preseason football, for having all the excitement, commercials, and time-outs of the regular season, but with none of the mattering. I appreciate it. Thank you.

My training camp has always been been something I have looked forward to every year.

Most of my work is done before we start shooting, preparation work, so my normal day begins when I start writing, it might even be the night before.