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- Nov 07, 2020
Puzzle Quotes
Every piece matters, even the small ones.
These quotes treat puzzles as both literal games and metaphors for filmmaking and teamwork, where every piece has to fit for the whole to work. For more on craft and creativity, see Like quotes.
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- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just consider myself a piece of the puzzle and I'm lucky enough to be asked or invited to the party, if you will. I hope I can bring some laughs and grimaces to the fans.
- Nov 07, 2020
But a lot of shows, they pose questions and they give you a puzzle where there's no solution.
- Comforted
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or if we are not clever enough, have it revealed by the all-powerful tale-teller at the end of the book? It is something to do with being reduced to, and comforted by, playing by the rules.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never been able to read Agatha Christie - the pleasure is purely in the puzzle, and the reader is toyed with by someone who didn't decide herself who the killer was until the end of the writing.
- Question
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.
- Support
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a big movie, like Ridley Scott's 'Kingdom of Heaven,' where I had a small part, you realize your task is to support everything that has to come together. You're just a piece of the puzzle. You're the guy in the hat.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's the corroborative nature of Twitter after an event happens that is an incredibly essential piece of the puzzle.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't live without my smartphone, but I really geek on coding. It's not so much technology that I like, but puzzle solving.
- Mouth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hollywood can buy a lot of pieces of the puzzle, but the great thing is they can never buy word of mouth.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is mentally stimulating; it's like a puzzle that makes you think all the time.
- Nov 07, 2020
Coaching is very complex: it's like a puzzle, and many things need to come together to make it work.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
The simplest way out of the puzzle of time travel is to say that it can't be done. That's very likely the right answer. However, we don't know for sure.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
My goal as a puzzle designer is to create a meaningful experience for the player, not just 'I solved it.'
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
The challenge coaches face is replacing players they were counting on to be major pieces of a puzzle. In a lot of cases, there is just no way to make the necessary adjustments.
- Footage
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- Nov 07, 2020
David Beckham is always seen as the thickest man on the planet, too daft to complete a jigsaw puzzle. But then you watch old footage of him playing and every time he plays a ball across the field, he's intuitively working out the trajectory of the ball.
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- Nov 07, 2020