Quotes About Skill

As a storyboard artist, you have to be able to draw anything.

When you make work, your goal might not be first and foremost to have as many people as possible see it, but it might be more about honing your craft as a storyteller or making art, but, there's no doubt about it, you want lots of people to see it.

I would say, A, you can't really teach anyone how to write good characters, because it's something you have to teach yourself or already have innately in you as a storyteller, and, B, coming up with a good screenplay is a very, very small fraction of what it takes to be a good screenwriter.

I'm one of the greatest storytellers ever.

My show is more storytelling now than it's ever been. It's what I'm good at.

I think storytelling is a thing of beauty, and also very difficult. It's a craft you have to continue to work at.

I've always said I have one skill. That skill - if I have it at all - is storytelling.

I don't assume, because I can write screenplays, that I know how to write a novel. It's a very different world. There's a craft involved in storytelling, and it's a different kind of craft. But yes, someday I will do that. It just might be awhile.

You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.

A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.

I will fall in love with any golf course that you have to drive the ball straight. You understand what I'm saying? That's my advantage. My advantage wasn't putting. In fact, I wasn't even a great putter or a good putter.

I'm not a full-fledged producer, but I can be one if I want to really spend my time on straight being a producer.

Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.

Juggling is very, very straightforward; very, very black and white; you're manipulating objects, not people. And that's always appealed to me.

You have to have your feet in the right position to make a pass, a lot of small things go into making a simple, straightforward pass.

It's best to keep a strategic fight and try to win because the level of the sport is so high.

Being a woman fighter, I can't just go out there and manhandle a girl, I need to be very strategic: Use my skills, head movement and defence, then seek and destroy.

'Starcraft' is a fairly strategic game with depth.

There is no division, in practice, between work and life. [An intellectual craft] is a practice that involves the whole person, continually drawing on past experience as it is projected into the future.

It is in the very 'tuning' of movement in response to the ever-changing conditions of an unfolding task that the skill of walking, as that of any other bodily technique, ultimately resides. Indeed it could be said that walking is a highly intelligent activity. This intelligence, however, is not located exclusively in the head but is distributed throughout the entire field of relations comprised by the presence of the human being in the inhabited world.

Learning lines is my biggest challenge.

I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I haven't been back for 11 years. I think any stage experience is good experience, as far as being an actor is concerned.

Figure out what you do, then do it. And do it better than anyone else. And then let everything else you do build around that; stay with what you know. Being great at one thing doesn't mean you can also run a restaurant or a car dealership or a line of sportswear. Bill Gates is not going to launch a line of sportswear. Most likely, neither should you.

Good pictures, Curtis explained, are not products of chance, but come from long hours of study.