Quotes About Sequence

Half the time, I have trouble following our own pitcher's sequence.

To me, action has to come from the plot.

I approach an action sequence almost like a mathematical problem. Sometimes you get these action sequences that you read and go, 'Oh my God, this is huge, how do I do it?' and I go, 'Just a step at a time. Sit down and plot each piece of it out.'

I'm very good at plot.

Character, story and plot are affected by any action sequence so you have to really design them accordingly.

I'm thinking about color all the time. Sometimes even as far back as the plotting sequence.

Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just.

In a long poem or a sequence of poems, you're trying to formalize your obsessions and give them a shape and a name. The key is to realize if the connections you are making are ones with resonance.

Everything's always got to be character-based. We know we can't, if we're sitting in the editing room, watch the sequence for more than 20 seconds without a character having a point of view or moving the action forward; my brain just shuts down, or I start thinking about my laundry.

A sequence works in a way a collection never can.

If I read something and respond to the role, that's what happens, and if those happen to be a few comedies in a row, or not, so be it.

There's an arc to an action sequence, and you need to come out the other end knowing your character better, and maybe the story has moved forward in a compelling way.

As a composer, every project begins with either a blank sequence or a blank manuscript and for the first couple of days you cover and experience every emotion under the sun. Fear being the main one.

The third, to conduct my thoughts in such order that, by commencing with objects the simplest and easiest to know, I might ascend by little and little, and, as it were, step by step, to the knowledge of the more complex; assigning in thought a certain order even to those objects which in their own nature do not stand in a relation of antecedence and sequence.

How do you have five children in a row, each on a different say?" "They're gods," Carter said. "They can do stuff like that.

You want a logical explanation? String the facts together. The scenes.

the book gave Jack a feeling he had never had before, that the past was like a story, in which one thing led to another, and the world was not a boundless mystery, but a finite thing that could be comprehended.

that the order of numbers in the

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

he had discovered the natural connection between numbers that seemed completely unrelated.

Contextualization is a good dance partner, but she should never be allowed to lead. Put her before the exegetical steps in your sequence of preparation, and problems will quickly emerge.

10. Both the North Tower and the South Tower collapsed just as their respective fires were dying down, even though this meant that the South Tower, which had been hit second, collapsed first.

Your assignment is a pre-cursor to someone else's assignment. In the same breath, someone else's assignment is a pre-cursor to yours.

Once a kata has been learned, it must be practised repeatedly until it can be applied in an emergency, for knowledge of just the sequence of a kata in karate is useless.