Quotes About Sequence

Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause.

When you cut a film, certain scenes fall away and don't fit into the shape of the movie.

When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence.

And now the sequence of events in no particular order.

Making movies is all about compromise, negotiation, and sacrifice, but the process helps you distill what's really important to you, and once you have identified what those these things are for any particular sequence, you hold onto them and don't let them go.

Probably the most difficult things were my favorite parts. The make-up and the big fight sequence at the end of the movie were very difficult but really fun and challenging.

But therein lies the logician's trap: past data from real life constitute a sequence of events rather than a set of independent observations, which is what the laws of probability demand.

the deepest impulses behind the war had to do with the sequence of sterilisation, direct medical killing and genocide.

If you write a good action sequence well in a novel, you're already writing it for film, because the only way to do it well is to use some of the same tricks. They're rhetorical, not visual, but it's the same move.

As soon as you're finished shooting, you have to go into the edit room and choose all of the shots that you're going to commit to because the visual effects vendor has to get it because they'll spend months on it. So, you're editing out of sequence before you've gotten a film for the movie and the performances.

Praise is nothing that accumulates. Praise is a sequence, especially if you've toiled for a long time. Praise does not pile up. So in a way, you can't get too much. I don't consider it to be a quantity that you can measure by volume.

I have to write in sequence and only in sequence.

I like to be very physical: Any sort of fight sequence is a dream to me.

Things always happen in series.

In a very real sense, all you do when you're shooting film or television is you shoot a scene, and then you shoot another scene, and then you shoot another scene.

Fight scenes are like learning a dance. You learn it move by move, and then you put it all together and it looks awesome when you edit it together. It's great!

Playing albums in sequence can be awesome, or it can be very limiting.

Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was.

The central problem of novel-writing is causality.

Faptele grave se petrec în afara timpului, fie din pricin? c? trecutul imediat parc? se rupe de viitor, fie din pricin? c? p?rÈ›ile alc?tuitoare nu par s? se înl?nÈ›uiasc? firesc.

any action predicated solely on DNA sequence seems to me to be a high-risk endeavor, prone to specious failure.

You can't ask questions like that. Everything has to be done in the right order, or the whole narrative falls to pieces. One thing has to follow another. You can't skip over anything or move things along faster. One step at a time.

I wouldn't have changed a thing in my past. Life is like dominoes: if you move one, it wouldn't fall the right way.

Every single cancer is a genetic disease. Not necessarily inherited from your parents, but it's genetic changes which cause cancer. So as we sequence the genomes of tumours and compare those to the sequence of patients, we're getting down to the fundamental basis of each individual person's cancer.