Marya Hornbacher Quotes

Technique! The very word is like a shriek of outraged Art. It is the idiot name given to effort by those who are too weak, too weary, or too dull to play the game. The mighty have no theory of technique.

We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will develop into somebody important and someone good.

For me Sir Alex was my father in football. He was crucial in my career and, outside football, was a great human being with me. Talent isn't everything. You can have it from the cradle, but it is necessary to learn the trade to be the best.

because talent alone doesn't make an artist

Songwriting wasn't my gift. I think you have to cultivate a gift; you have to practice and develop craft around your gift so that you can execute it in more convenient, efficient ways.

I don't think I would ever have been able to be an actress had I not started at nine years old.

We use shorts at the studio extensively to develop talent. I always love to give opportunities for young story people, animators, layout people something like that to take the next step up in their career and try things out.

I was always super, super musical. So my parents recognized that and put me in choirs, piano lessons, and all that.

The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment.

I've written what and when I want to. It's been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to learn to do everything in a very specific, disciplined way. I am very disciplined, but this demanded a totally different kind of discipline. A real challenge.

The more versatile you make yourself, the more work you get. Training makes you more versatile and ultimately gets you more work. Julliard taught me that.

I don't presume to describe myself as a creator anymore, but I certainly love the process, and I hope I can do a lot of great things for the talent who are in and around DC.

Every performer can get better. It's not about staying with what God gave you and doing nothing with it for the rest of your life.

If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings.

We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it.

I can take a three-year-old and make a hit record.

I think Jerry Lee is sad. As a musician, he was far more talented than Elvis Presley. Everybody down in Memphis knows that. Elvis became a movie star because he was beautiful. Not that Elvis wasn't talented, but Jerry Lee Lewis was incomprehensibly talented as a musician.

You can tune your guitar funky, and something's gonna come out. There's no secret to it - either you got it, or you don't.

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.

You put a very talented kid in a structured environment, where they get to understand and believe how talented they are, and you'll see some great results.

Never stop training, no matter what level you're at. Never, ever stop putting your talent under a microscope and asking, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah - I'm doing all this stuff right, but what's wrong with my acting?'

It's never a surprise to me that a job that I'm doing reflects what I'm going through or what I'm thinking about.

Honestly, dialogue is a weird area for me. It just comes naturally; I know I'm quite good at it, but I can't actually tell you why or how in any detail.

My parents made me take piano lessons from 1st grade to when I graduated from high school, and music never came to me as naturally as my other more visual artistic talents.

My whole thing is, you listen to the actor and help them bring out their best thing.