Quotes About Analysis

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Playing chess or Go or Tigris and Euphrates—a very good game, by the way—I can watch people as they choose their strategy and note how they respond to something I've done. Even

The workbench was filled with glassware, books, syringes, tattooing machine parts, plastic bags, tools. Dozens of books on toxins and thousands of downloaded Internet documents

Luce even analyzed my prose style to see if I wrote in a linear, masculine way, or in a circular, feminine one.

Increased attention meant more scrutiny and scorn.

the solution to America's race problem—a problem analyzed and discussed for decades by armies of sociologists, politicians and activists—is internal, not external.

Because you'll go through so many changes, I don't think it pays off to overanalyze the first business plan, for example. The first business plan is there to make sure you can use Microsoft Word.

Walter is incredibly complex. I do a lot of thinking about the work I do, and try to get the rhythms of scenes.

Living in the world of the workshop, which I do as a teacher, you have to be articulate about craft. And that often involves imposing analysis on work that's in a pretty raw state.

To discover the various use of things is the work of history.

Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new.

There is no urge so great as for one man to edit another man's work.

At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself.

My head's filled up with all the reasons it won't work. And I keep running the figures, over and over, but I can't seem to come up with an answer.

I'm a pretty harsh critic when it comes to my own stuff or things that come from my work.

We read critics for the perceptions, for what they tell us that we didn't fully grasp when we saw the work. The judgments we can usually make for ourselves.

So much of the work is intuitive. The resistance you detect is just that, a kind of evasion, a sense that too much analysis will inhibit creativity.

Experiments work when, and only when, they call into action cognitive capacities that might reliably deliver the conclusions drawn.

So much can be learned by any filmmaker by studying his work, in terms of blocking, staging, editing and sound.

I criticize my own work pretty harshly.

Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.

The way I sometimes approach my work, when I look at a script for the first time, is to identify what the archetypes are and what the writing is trying to do in that context.

The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.

I tend not to analyse my work, though I'm frequently intrigued when other people take time to do so.