"Worlding is the art of devising a World: by choosing its dysfunctional present, maintaining its habitable past, aiming at its transformative future, and ultimately, letting it outlive your authorial control." -Ian Cheng

Texture is an organic result of the process.

“We all unknowingly reveal ourselves in our efforts to conceal or compensate for our secret, unspoken shortcomings. [...] That is, we convey a lack of physical control by concentrating instead on getting every physical action absolutely perfect.” -Frank Hauser, Lesson 81 from Notes on Directing

"The important thing in films is not so much to make successes as not to make failures, because each failure limits your future opportunities to make the films you want to make." -Stanley Kubrick