My gift, if I have one, is choosing terrific talent and providing the atmosphere for them to do their best work.
Talent is less important in filmmaking than patience.
Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.
Every person has a talent, but not the same one. Every person has to discover his personal talent and go with his talent. And then you are you, and what you do, you do because you love what you do, not because you want to be famous or because you're making money. You do the work because you love it.
The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
Great talent admits shortcomings.
In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable.
I know of few actresses who have this incredible talent for communicating with a camera lens. She would try to seduce a camera as if it were a human being.
Your attitude to life is far more important in determining your happiness than your money, appearance, social status or talent.
You have to have talent to some extent - I certainly hope I have talent - but you have to have luck as well. Once you get that first shot, that will get you noticed for the rest of your books and that will give the rest of your books a better chance.
Men don't need linguistic talent; they just need courage and words.
Lack of discipline. First of all, I think some of them fail because they just don't have natural talent, and they shouldn't even be in the business to begin with.
Talent consists not in inventing shapes but in causing those that were invisible to emerge.
The depth of John Candy's talent did surprise me. He was one of my all-time favorite leading men.
A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.
All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent.
The truth of the matter is the real industry is in LA and the cream of the talent is there.
Nature has concealed at the bottom of our minds talents and abilities of which we are not aware.
War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly.
Obviously, where art has it over life is in the matter of editing. Life can be seen to suffer from a drastic lack of editing. It stops too quick, or else it goes on too long. Worse, its pacing is erratic. Some chapters are little more than a few sentences in length, while others stretch into volumes. Life, for all its raw talent, has little sense of structure. It creates amazing textures, but it can't be counted on for snappy beginnings or good endings either. Indeed, in many cases no ending is provided at all.