Quotes About Progression

But, then, that's the point. In leadership, success is succession.

The stakes—what your protagonist is risking—should increase in significance as the story progresses.

One of the keys to good pacing is to alternate your plot complications with rewards. Like a pendulum that swings on an arc, let your character relax, if only briefly, between disasters.

connect two clauses, the second of which refers to something that results from the first: there was a flash flood and by the next morning the town was under water. - connecting two identical comparatives, to emphasize a progressive change: getting better and better. - connecting two identical words, implying great duration or great extent: I cried and cried. - used to connect two identical

Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.

'3:10 to Yuma' was one that I just kept on talking and thinking about after reading it. And I think the reason is because, like in most Westerns, you have the very clear-cut bad-guy/good-guy, however, as the movie progresses, you kind of see that it's a very fine line that divides these two.

Mel Brooks is an interesting one because he started out making films about stuff that he was totally affectionate about, like musicals, westerns, horror films, Hitchcock films. And then, as they get further on, and you get to 'Spaceballs,' then it's just kind of contrived.

After 'Baby Doll,' I did some Westerns. I would try to do something so far away from 'Baby Doll.'

From my experience, moving through life, things tend to go in eight- to 10-year cycles. Friends, relationships and whatnot.

To say I feel close or whatnot, I don't really know what that means, but I feel like my game and, you know, myself is slowly maturing.

I'll just start laying out the melody exactly where I want it to fall. And then I'll go back and fill it out. Whereas, in other pieces I'm really just going a couple bars at a time.

In each medium - popular music, literature, and visual art, respectively - the woman has broken form, shed a skin, with each phase of her career, whereas the man has returned to ever-deepening iterations of the sound or sentence or imagery with which he began.

I've turned into a full-back who pushes forwards whereas in Italy usually the full-back concentrates more on defending.

Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.

In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film.

Every time you make a film, you want to do it in a genre that is different from your previous film, so that there is something fresh about it.

I've come to find more satisfaction and enjoyment in writing screenplays over the years because that's what I do primarily now.

The process of writing is like creating a game of dominoes: The first domino creates the second incident, and so forth until the end.

I just always want a new producer. I'm going to have a new producer on the next one. Because I'm the same person, and I feel like, I know I'm going to bring to it a certain sensibility that's me, and I want to have something different coming out on each album.

Eventually, my dad bought me a guitar for Christmas, and then I just went from there, man. I bought a drum kit a few years later and bought a bass, started producing, started singing.

Fashion only seems to make sense if it's rooted in some dimension of history or if it feels like a continuation of an idea.

I was directing before I started doing 'The IT Crowd.' It wasn't something that led on after acting I guess. I was sort of doing this stuff before acting.

I loved acting, and then acting led to writing, and writing led to directing, and directing lead to five movies, and I feel like the luckiest guy in the world.

There's been no two Dirty Projectors records that have had the same cast of characters every time.