Quotes About Pacing

I don't have to rush the fight. I have five rounds to win.

I feel like if you rush anything, it's never complete and it's never, never what you want it to be.

What would be the good of rushing? You want these books to last.

One of the things is that you need to space out scary movies.

It can kind of screw up things if you're trying to overwork something.

I remember Pavarotti telling me, 'Oh, Neil, after seventy, the voice is going to go.' But I've been lucky. You almost have to learn how to sing all over again. You use your diaphragm more. You have to choose the notes and pace yourself.

I try to pace my life out and try not to be too involved with negativity and try to fix what I can fix in my life.

If you go, go, go, you will get tired. So I had to learn to pace myself. I don't have a problem with five rounds now.

Pacing has become more important than ever, largely because of other media. I've always tried to start my stories out with a bang, something that will hook their attention.

I've seen 'Goodfellas' a hundred times, and one of the things that I take away from that movie is dynamic pacing and energy. I just think that film is sort of a paragon of excellence in filmmaking and the compression of narrative.

Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.

In general, I don't really think too much about pacing, myself. You kind of look at each script and what each script demands.

You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.

A lot of feature films do two pages a day.

For me, writing for kids is harder because they're a more discriminating audience. While adults might stay with you, if you lose your pacing or if you have pages of extraneous description, a kid's not going to do that. They will drop the book.

I don't think 'Lootera' is slow paced; it's finely paced for its setting and story.

I had thought that if I kept myself busy, time would move faster, but no matter what I did, every second felt like an hour.

I'd rather try and cram in another two gags than leave a pause to say, 'Hey, wasn't that bit funny?'

That's the challenging thing with TV; it's not the action scenes per se, and it's not the location scenes and the heavy dialog scenes, but the fact that there is just no let-up; there is no break.

Playing '10,000 Days' in concert was very challenging but infinitely rewarding. It's much more sensitive and emotional than our other songs, and it requires pacing yourself and also being very vulnerable.

All these years later, I have almost no memory of the shows themselves. It's a blur. I remember my jogging runs better - that was my way of getting my energy together. I used to try to get to the arena as late as possible; otherwise, I'd just be pacing around, waiting to go on.

I've had a lazy career. Sometimes one film a year, sometimes none. I'm walking around in the street and doing this other thing, living, that I'm much more interested in. I just do some acting on the side.

My biggest influence is Chris Rock. His physicality is like a caged tiger - pacing the stage - how he walks back and forth.

Football is something great, but it is like making love: if you do it every minute you get bored, so you have to take your time and do it now and again.