Quotes About Pace

A lot of locked-room mysteries take time for you to pay attention and see the setup. They aren't thrillers, and they don't move along. The modern mystery story is really faster-paced, and I think modern readers tend to prefer seeing something happening on every other page.

With thrillers, I tend to concentrate on the research and pace more than the characters.

I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do.

Pace is the most important thing. That is the one thing that I have had throughout my whole career.

It took me a few years to realize that throwing harder wasn't always better.

What everyone loved about '24' is still there - the clock, the tick, the lean-in factor, the pacing.

Film and television, one is generally faster. Television generally moves faster in terms of directing, schedules and getting things done. Film, you're on a pretty tight schedule, so the process is the dame.

If you must be in a hurry, then let it be according to the old adage, and hasten slowly.

Most days it feels like I am watching a movie where the sound isn't in sync, the speed is all wrong. Either I'm moving too quickly and the world is dripping along, or the world is moving too quickly, cosmic, and I'm oozing like a slug barely able to pull my own weight. It's best if I keep moving because if I stopped and stood still people would see me shaking.

Nothing is so cruel as to try and force a man beyond his natural pace.

if you have your film set at the right speed

I have no problem walking in New York because I have a very brisk pace: By the time anyone recognizes me, it's too late, I'm four blocks away from them.

I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler.

It moves at its own measured pace, for it has no reason to hurry. Tomorrow will come in its own good time.

Take more time, cover less ground.

On horseback you feel as if you're moving in time to classical music; a camel seems to progress to the beat of a drum played by a drunk.

The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.

Decide that you will not try to do everything at once. That is why time is spread out.

To help your concentration, don't take too much time.

I hate to lose time on the set. On the set, you have to go at a good pace, because the clock is your master. For that reason, I have to know exactly what I'm trying to get beforehand.

The time has come to challenge our obsession with doing everything more quickly.

Hurry? I have no time to hurry.

Everyone always talks about the speed of New York, and I still walk slow around New York, and everyone is walking faster than me all the time, and I notice it every time we go out.

Avoid running at all times.