Quotes About Direction

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.

When you know your history, you have a better vision of where you're going. And, when you have that, there's no stopping you.

When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art.

So now my road map has changed and I don't have a really clear idea of what the next stops are.

I have an incredible sense of direction, but London is confusing. It's a circle, but then it stops being a circle.

In response to the making of DSMNY, a change in the Chelsea store became necessary. My flagship stores always have to lead the way.

The films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations before this, but they were mostly original stories where I had complete freedom to evolve in the direction I wanted.

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

It all starts with a very solid, well-executed script, where the story is very clear and everybody is rowing in the same direction. That's always good; that's a constant.

I only make storyboards for action scenes. Once you make a storyboard, you don't film; it can be a stiff move.

I don't storyboard, and I don't really shot list. I let the shots be determined by how the actors and I figure out the blocking in a scene, and then from there, we cover it.

I'm not at my house storyboarding, and telling them they need to move from A to B, 'Move here and then there.' Never, ever! I used to storyboard when I was much less experienced.

My desire as a storyteller is to always catch the readers off guard; to give them something they aren't expecting, and take them in a direction that is satisfying in the here and non.

I tend to write my beginnings and endings first - as a cartoonist and storyteller, I couldn't sit down every day if I didn't know where the story was headed.

Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game.

I'm not a fan of endless mystery in storytelling - I like to know where the mythology's going; I like to get there in an exciting, fast-paced way - enough that there's a really clear, aggressive direction to where it's going, to pay off mystery and reward the audiences loyalty.

Where the gaming world is going - and certainly Activision proved it by hiring me - is being willing to push and bend and move in a new direction of actually capturing the character and storytelling.

Eventually, I would love to direct, but not anytime soon. I just love the storytelling aspect.

Storytelling has changed. Shows like 'Adventure Time' have taken storytelling in a different direction.

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward.

A ruler isn't always straight.

My personality was always such that I always look straight forward, never behind or to the side.

Setting goals can blind you to opportunities. You might be trying to get to point C. When opportunity B comes, you don't even look at it because you're going straight to C.

Markets shouldn't be moving in a straight line.