Film and television essentially feel the same when you're doing it, because it's the same technical approach.
You learn a lot about acting and being physical and being on stage, but there is technical stuff on camera that you can't learn until you do it.
The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination. Even when the external and scientific requirements for the birth of an idea have long been there, it generally needs an external stimulus to make it actually happen; man has, so to speak, to stumble right up against the thing before the idea comes.
Photography should be redefined. It's largely technical. . . Photography is just unbelievably limiting. I always think of David Bailey and all the fashion photographers - they overlap, you can't always tell who did it. I don't really even like photography all that much. I just think it's so overdone.
Basically I just had to say, 'Screw everyone around me - from now on I'm just gonna play what I think is important to me and our music. ' So I gave the big finger to all the current trends in technical wizardry, and just went off and did what I felt was best for the songs.
We don't have a traditional strategy process, planning process like you'd find in traditional technical companies. It allows Google to innovate very, very quickly, which I think is a real strength of the company.
Sure, you need enormous amounts of technical expertise to be the best in the world. But to accomplish mindfulness, you just need something you already have: the willingness to quiet down, clear the crap and trust yourself.
You just have to learn certain technical things, like where the camera is, not to block people's light in your own, to hit your marks, and that you do it kind of piecemeal.
For me, the food I like to make is the food I can enjoy all the time anytime. Its not too calculated or technical.
Emotional makeup is more important than technical skill
Writing is not just the technical act of your fingers on the keyboard. Writing is living.
And so I've always been fascinated by the technical end of theater, and a lot of my closest friends are not actors, but in the other end of the business.
The big, strong, tough guy goes to class, and he keeps getting tapped by the skinny, technical guy. It begins to change him. It makes him humble. That's what Jiu Jitsu does to you. It makes you humble.
I've been working in computer animation for 25 years. I'm obviously a devotee of the technology. I just think it's the one aspect of the medium that's going to continue to revolutionize the filmmaking. It's constantly changing and it's constantly opening up new possibilities. The technology is evolving where 2-D animation was ultimately limited by how long you could pay how many people to make a movie. I mean computers, not that it's in anyway a labor saving device, but it promises to open up exciting new technical possibilites.
I'm not hugely technical with things, but I guess that the thing I use most is my iPhone, on a practical level.
I worry about technical details - did I mix the cello half a decibel too high? Things like that.
a samurai is a total human being, whereas a man who is completely absorbed in his technical skill has degenerated into a ‘function’, one cog in a machine.
I think a lot of developments start with the desire of the developer to get what he really wants so that he can use it. It's not just the technical fascination or the business opportunity.
In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery
And with puppets, especially in our company, we sort of demand a very high standard of puppetry, so it's a real technical skill.