Film has become such a central part of our culture now that I think sometimes too great a weight is placed upon it in terms of scrutiny and analysis. There's a lot of rather specious professorial stuff that swirls around films.
I typically go overboard when I research new projects.
But let the wise be warned against too great readiness to explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.
To me, the preseason is the most over-analyzed 10 plays or whatever it is - ever.
One of the problems, hanging out with me, is that I can turn any topic into a toxic horror story. I've lost two girlfriends and a job by reading an ingredients label out loud, with annotations, at the wrong time.
The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark.
I suspect people who are indecisive are people who are far too enamored of analysis in all settings and are destroying their ability to make an instinctive judgment through over-analysis and that's dangerous.
Who cares how many miles per hour the ball traveled once it left the bat, or how high the ball traveled in degrees, or how many seconds it took to leave the ballpark?
Too often new ideas are studied and analyzed until they are suffocated.
I'm not a great fan of the modern style of personal agonising, which crops up a bit too often for my liking.
I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is they that spoil all; they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy.
Do not commit spiritual suicide through a passion for discussing metaphysical subtleties.
The noble temptation to see too much in everything.
By undue profundity we perplex and enfeeble thought; and it is possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the firmament by a scrutiny too sustained, too concentrated, or too direct.
Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so.
All the little things you nitpick in your head, nobody really cares that much outside your head.
