Overall Impact Quotes

The first act's doubtful, but we say, it is the last commends the play.

The detail is as important as the essential is. When it is inadequate, it destroys the whole outfit.

But the real focus should be on people who are buying today because the base is so big it will take a long time for any change materialize on an overall basis.

I do get very involved in making a scene work without giving too much thought about how it affects the overall, which I think is hard to know in any case.

When the audience leaves, I'd like them to feel positive when they go.

I think for a lot of artists, if you're lucky enough to have a kind of career, especially toward the end, you start to think about what the whole ensemble looks like. It's the whole that counts. The parts are given, but you don't know how the whole thing's going to look when it's all put together.

I think that story wins out over acting and that the thing as a whole is more important than the performances therein.

No writer must be measured by a word or paragraph. He is to be measured by his work - by the tendency, not of one line, but by the tendency of all.

No matter how significant or life-changing your greatest hit or miss might be, neither even begins to define who you are. Each of us is a product of all our experiences and all our interactions with other people. To cite calculus, we are the area under the curve.

There is so much more than just what you do in the ring and what you do on the microphone.

I want to be remembered much more by a total vision than a few perfect single pictures.

A good album should be more than the sum of its parts.

It's really important to me that the songs not only stand out individually but work as a full body of work, too.

Because it may seem like a small role now, but it matters. In the end, everything matters.

You have to have a macro outlook, see the film in totality, whether it will resonate with people or not.

Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.

Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.

I want my music to be treated as a book or a movie. It's not about the one single: it's about the bigger picture.

The real cost is always more than just the money you shell out.

The costumes, the light rigs and the effects are seamlessly joined. I'm kind of bummed that I don't get the experience that you get with just watching it cold. By the time we'd seen all the visuals put together, I'd sort of become used to that world. It's still pretty impressive.

It would be a very bad idea... to exhibit even a small number of this new series, as the whole effect can only be achieved from an exhibition of the entire group.

Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.

Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

I'm not a cinematic cinematic person. I go to the movies like I did back when I was a kid. I go to the movies and I sit down. If the music works, hmm. If it doesn't work, hmm. The whole concept of the thing, not as one piece here or there. For me, music is a large part.

To the audience it doesn't really matter how much the director struggled with an actor. It's the result that counts.