Technical Knowledge Quotes

My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment - my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

I'm not really good with technology.

I wanted to do a film for a while, but I never found a script that I felt I was going to be the right person for; because if you've never made a film, you're not taught how to make a film, and you feel like you lack skills.

The directing is something that is incredibly satisfying to me and challenging to me because it's asking me to draw on everything I've been able to absorb over all these years of acting and having all this set experience.

I've really just had to learn and adapt more than ever before, because there's so much to do in F1. There's so much to be on top of as a driver. It really requires perfection just to walk out of a weekend with a decent result.

Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.

Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs.

I spend a fair amount of time on my computer, but I don't hack into anything. I have to open the manual and follow instructions.

I know how to do science. I know how to make things. I don't know how to run a company. Now that's a really tough job.

Every cinematographer I worked with had his own way of solving problems.

So many directors say nothing beautifully, and so many others say great and profound things but have no idea how to read a light meter or arrange a shot.

The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal, and no liberal education which is not technical.

I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of the game.

Nobody taught Picasso how to paint - he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can learn the mechanics, but you can't learn what's right about a script or a director or an actor. That comes from instinct and intuition. It comes from inside you.

I actually think in music, learning technical stuff doesn't matter. You can be as technical as you like, but still sound awful.

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.

I've never been - I don't think I'm, like, a great A&R by any means. I don't even know production lingo, in all honesty.

A lot of actors aren't particularly good directors. And they're not particularly good with other actors. That's kind of a fallacy.

There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.

The ancients considered mechanics in a twofold respect: as rational, which proceeds accurately by demonstration, and practical. To practical mechanics all the manual arts belong, from which mechanics took its name.

Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.

I'm an engineer.

I would be better at my job if I were technical.

Scientific concepts sometimes elude the vast majority of elected officials.

Look, you need technical skills to run a company.