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The process of creation goes on all the time. When I get through, I feel I know what the character will do in every situation. But the building up of the part is not mechanical or deliberate. It grows out of the text.

The process of building a part doesn't really stop.

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning.

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.

Creating anything is hard.

Creating is a lonely thing in a lot of ways.

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.

So much of artistic creation is just exclusion. It's not creating things; it's just excluding things that really aren't going to be helpful.