Quotes About Structure

The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.

One of the main reasons I wanted to work on 'World War Z' was because I'm a huge fan of the book, and I love the idea of taking a non-linear story and creating a three-act structure out of it.

I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book.

Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling.

We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that.

If you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it afterwards.

The work really isn't about the specific content to me. As I'm putting things together, it's more about consistencies in form.

Most people have bosses who hire them to fill a slot in the work chart and to do what they are told. And most people who are doing what they are told feel safe; it feels reliable.

Retirement is a work in progress. I try to figure out my day, and what I know about myself is that I need structure.

The social system is taking on a form in which finding out what you want to do is less and less of an option because your life is too structured, organised, controlled and disciplined.

I was a little, uh, incorrigible as a kid, so the kitchen was a good place to give me structure and balance. It taught me hard work, but then I grew to love it.

My work is always very geometric.

I like the boundaries, the kinds of conventions of a documentary and having to work within that.

I've never tried to work chronologically. I don't think I have the discipline to do that.

The more work you put in on your outline and getting the skeleton of your story right, the easier the process is later.

Play needs direction as well as work.

One always starts work with the subject, no matter how tenuous it is, and one constructs an artificial structure by which one can trap the reality of the subject-matter that one has started from.

Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.

I think there are some things in music that work and don't work. That's learned from counterpoint and rhythm and theory, and they don't work if you don't want them to work.

I often use official documents or bureaucratic forms within my work. I find their structure and language style leaves a lot of room for poetry and my own interpretation.

Marvel is a very streamlined studio.

The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process.

Bluegrass has a very, very strict musical form. Once you start to dilute it, it disappears.

Keep a strict, predictable schedule 365 days a year that has you eating, sleeping, and exercising at about the same times day in and day out.