I was very intimidated by the visual effects world. But I began to realize that you don't have to know everything. You have to be able to talk about story.
Interpretation
Understanding storytelling is more important than knowing all technical details in visual effects.
Ron Howard emphasizes that while the technical aspects of visual effects can be intimidating, the essence of filmmaking lies in storytelling. He suggests that effective communication about the story is crucial and that one does not need to be an expert in every technical detail to contribute meaningfully to a project.
In practice
In a film class, when discussing the importance of narrative over technical skills.
I think child stars have a leg up, actually, because they have an innate sense of what creative problem solving is all about. But to make a life out of it, you have to be ready to take on project after project. You have to like the action.
I used to feel that I had to be dictatorial in order to be respected, but after I did a couple of TV movies, I began to see that authority came with the job. So I began to relax and let more people into the process, and my work really improved.
Even when you're 22 and you feel immortal, you know in your heart you're not.
Unlike the twisters he famously chased in the movies, Bill Paxton was the kind of force of nature you ran toward and never away from.
I'll go to the movies and hear 'Angel From Montgomery' in some film, and nobody ever even told me about it. They don't tell you your stuff is going to be in a movie. They don't have to, so they don't tell you. You get paid eventually.
The small wad of burning paper drew down to a wisp of flame and then died out leaving a faint pattern for just a moment in the incandescence like the shape of a flower, a molten rose. Then all was dark again.
I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.
I realised that I had always been writing things that other people wanted me to write and not what I really wanted to write, so I felt like I was losing my way.
The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency---half tiger,half poet.
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