Quotes About Limitation

Working against a restriction - for me - often produces greater things than getting rid of all boundaries.

We need to diversify the people who are backstage and producing and marketing these shows. It's the limitations of these people that are holding Broadway back.

When you are in control of what the final product is, there is kind of no limitation to what you feel like you can do because you know that if you don't like it, you can just cut it out.

You only have a week to do a show. I mean, there's only so deep you can dig in that week.

When you do a half-hour show, there's only so much you can do. At best, you're going to get a character with two-and-a-half dimensions.

I found the blues too limiting, and classical was too disciplined.

As an adult, I had to accept that I was not a natural distance runner. Anything more than about 400 metres had me gasping and wheezing like a broken accordion.

I learned at 50 that there are things that are not my department. Distribution is one of those things.

There's no way that I could be a congressman in a California district at 32.

I think sometimes you need a little more explanation than the characters that you're allowed on Twitter.

I don't think there is much left that I can explore as an actor.

I'm not explosive. I can't jump.

Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously.

I did a lot of screaming in 'The Originals,' and I hurt my voice so badly that I said, 'I can't scream if you want me to be able to work for, like, the next three days.' So, what I usually do is that I scream once in the season, and we'll just use that scream, all throughout, or extend it, or do whatever we need to do.

There's one massive problem with coming from writing novels into screenplays that I've discovered over the years, which is that you've got too much facility on the page.

You can see my decision as either a distinctive factor or as a limitation. I don't feel it is a limitation.

I do respond to the ideas behind the Eurovision and 'The X Factor,' but they're both so limiting and very, very shallow.

I'm not technical.

World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.

Technically speaking, you can build anything out of sand; it doesn't mean you do it.

The technologies of convenience are making our sphere of exploration and experience smaller.

We're not just limited by technology but by our ideas and our experimentation and how quickly we can try things.

When I was a teenager I loved snowboarding, but in my 20s I was too big to strap my feet in the boards.

We shouldn't persuade people that we can simply conjure up the sun and the moon: at the most, we can deliver a telescope.