Quotes About Limitations

How foolishly we all bound ourselves into the very chains that could destroy us.

Nothing sets you (or at least me) free creatively," says the untamed film director and Monty Pythonite, Terry Gilliam, "like having a set of limitations to explore.

I visited 20 countries while I was pregnant. I had to stop after my seventh month.

You know, things that might work in a book just do not work in the visual medium of movies.

I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don't do than do.

It's hard to brief in the Oval. You know, you can't - no visual aids, hard to roll out something in front of somebody.

My cinema is an extension of myself. A sort of life-testimony of my vital experience, with my few virtues and my numerous limitations.

Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This made it harder to communicate emotions through design.

My vocal ability is very limited, but I'm fortunate in that I can write the songs around my vocal limitations.

I'm a big fan of Lou Reed, and I do a lot of talking through songs. It's more effective with my vocal limitations and also more powerful to slightly sing sometimes. It depends on the emotion, but I'm never going to try to compete with great singers.

The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals?

As fantastic as it is to have 'Vogue' and 'Vanity Fair' as places to work, I don't often get to shoot the kind of things I like to photograph in the way I like to photograph.

I should like to be remembered as the man who raised a voice against... placing limitations on the freedom of the individual.

The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient.

I don't claim to be a great vocalist, but I know how to work my voice with its limitations. My talent is I know how to work what I have. It might not always be a picture-perfect performance, but what we look for is the emotion.

People see my impressions as a great skill and I am flattered, but there are things I can't do that everyone else can. I can do funny voices and funny faces but I can't drive.

Everybody has their limitations and hence, we need to look for a range of voices more than the quality of singing in our local talent.

I can't be everything to everyone. Send me your specs.

We try to separate the world into the stuff we can control and the stuff we can't.

My head is weirdly shaped, so I can't wear a headband.

I am very bad at drawing. Seriously. I can draw shoes. That's about it.

After making a movie, maybe you weren't able to shoot many of your ideas, because a movie is only 1 1/2 or two hours long, but TV gives you space to film a lot of things.

It doesn't matter how big or small your film is: you still don't have enough money. You don't have enough time to shoot it.

I try to do as much as I can, but I simply can't shoot two films at a time.