Detailed Analysis Quotes

If you fixate on the big picture, the whole shebang, the overview, you miss the stitching.

Like any other person who reads a ton of books, I hate many, many books. Oh, how I hate them. I have performed dramatic readings of the books I hate. I have little hate summaries. I have hate impressions. I can act out, scene by hateful scene, some of these books. I can perform silent hate charades.

What I really don't like is oversimplification.

Correct observation followed by meticulous deduction and the precise visualization of goals is vital to the success of any enterprise.

The closer you look at something, the more complex it seems to be.

Particularly, the actors, to have analyzed the script in great detail from the point of view of their specific character. So that they have a handle on exactly where the character is in the chronology of things. In that sense the actors become your best check on the logic of the piece, and the way in which it all fits together. They become essential collaborators. The main thing is you have to work with very smart actors.

Horror fans are very passionate people, and they are very much into the 'Saw' thing. So they watch sometimes as carefully as the writers and producers do, in terms of the way the story plays out.

I've always had a fascination with the technical and small-scale aspects of life - the national media seem to have more interest in the sweeping political views.

I must begin, not with hypothesis, but with specific instances, no matter how minute.

If you want to solve very complex problems, you will have to end up letting machines work out a lot of the details for themselves, and in ways that we don't understand what they are doing.

The Blood of Heroes is surely the best account to date, one that presents plenty of new insights while acting as a corrective-or at least an alternative viewpoint-to previous accounts....Donovan combines that vital blend of authoritative scholarship with the vivid writing necessary to make an oft-told tale seem fresh.

As a reader and as a viewer, usually when I watch a movie, I'm caught up enough in the movie that I'm not breaking it down to the details anyway.

For Closer, we've had five weeks. You go into every single word because it's very, very concentrated dialogue.

I'd be wary of simple solutions to complex problems.

The worst letters come from retired high school English teachers. They will literally take a book and pick it to pieces and send me 14 pages of notes.

A still image attracts the viewer with an overall impact, then reveals smaller details upon further study.

The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.

One can never study nature too much and too hard

Understand from top to bottom what the effort requires.

Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

Ever since I did that 57.9 last year, the Americans have been analysing me in detail. You can see on the swimming web pages. They are breaking it down in every detail. How many strokes I take. How quick I am in and out of the wall.

As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one.

I had the good fortune to begin my legal career as a law clerk for a judge who really epitomized open-mindedness and fairness. He read the record in detail in every single case that came before me; he insisted on scrupulously following precedents.

I mean, journalism is very detailed... you try to get down in the weeds and sort out exactly what happened. And I don't think that a feature film is really a place where that happens.

In the past, I used to sit there and watch every single video and read every single article top to bottom, like, ripping me apart.