Unstructured Process Quotes

I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct. It has always been that way.

I write my scripts on a whim, without worrying about plot points and graphs.

There's never anything planned. I just do what I feel is best for the song at that time.

I just write what I think is funny, or interesting, and hopefully everything else will take care of itself. There's no strategy to anything.

The music, for me, doesn't come on a schedule. I don't know when it's going to come, and when it does, I want it out.

If you over-think, it affects things too much; I work instinctively, like painting in a way. Think too much, and you ruin everything.

The master plan does not have a master plan. Television ultimately finds itself, and after it finds itself, it finds itself changing.

Sometimes, I knew generally what I was going to do, but I've never written anything down. Call it a sixth sense: the lines just come.

I seem to be constantly confronted by theater professionals who are more or less annoyed by the prospect of structure.

I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline.

When I'm in the studio, I'm very cautious about it because if there's one thing that can destroy music being made, it's any sort of agenda, expectation and/or schedule, or any of that.

I really had no program or any established plan. I didn't even ask myself if I should sell my paintings or not.

Beginnings are always messy.

I don't ever know where I'm going. Because one of the wonderful things about writing, which is different than working in programming, you don't need to know. You could just write and discover where you're going. And it's a great deal of fun.

My brushwork is quite unsystematic. I slam the paint on in all sorts of ways and leave each result to take care of itself.

I'm hyperactive, and I went in the studio and I would just start making records, for no reason.

It's kind of an intuitive process. I wish that it were more systematic, but it just isn't.

U2's best work has always been when we didn't know what we're doing.

I don't plot the books out ahead of time, I don't plan them. I don't begin at the beginning and end at the end. I don't work with an outline and I don't work in a straight line.

I've never been a heavy practitioner of the method or, at least, with any specific intent; I'm kind of an impulse-based person. Like, I'm sort of waiting for something to happen that I'm not expecting, and I kind of want to jump on that train of emotion, whatever it is, both from myself or from the other actor.

I don't really go through a process, it goes through me.

I realized I had a novel on my hands, but didn't know where it was going to go. So I thought, 'I'm going to do everything that you're not supposed to do when you plan a novel; I'm going to step back and let this thing take itself wherever it wants to go, and I'm not going to worry about how things connect until later on.'

The nature of improvisation is you don't know what's going to happen.

I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern.

The thing about the creative process is it's so chaotic.