A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.
For one person, organized files might be a crucial tool for creativity; another person finds inspiration in random juxtapositions.
With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you need to have the tools ready - your voice, physicality, brain.
I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.
Meetings get a bad rap, and deservedly so - most are disorganized and distracted. But they can be a critical tool for getting your team on the same page.
Loss is merely a tool for evaluation, organization, determination and actualization towards being the best you that you can possibly be.
If we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children's mastery over the tools needed to live intelligent, creative, and involved lives.
We in Congress need to support the American forces in every conceivable way, giving them the tools to continue to convert, capture or kill terrorists and the time to equip the Iraqi security forces.
Be reactionary. React to what the market wants. And the market wants one-on-one real time engagement. Now that we have the tools to engage, I'm going to continue fighting for the end user.
In modelling or football, being 30 is very bad. But, for an actress, ageing is like wine. You taste better and better because your body, your mind, your feelings, all this is a tool and it's getting sharper with time.
Damon Macready: [from trailer] Tool up, honey bunny. It's time to get bad guys.
We are always creating new tools and techniques to help people, but the fundamental framework is remarkably resilient, which means it must have something to do with the nature of organizations or human nature.
Fashion can be a really powerful tool, but it's also a place where you can be totally humiliated and have your power taken from you.
I think empathy is a beautiful thing. I think that's the power of film though. We have one of the most powerful, one of the greatest communicative tools known to man.
That the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization.
More than just music, the splash of water or a lone footstep can put you in the moment. Sound is just another tool in the developer's toolbox to draw the player further into the game.
I've always considered transcribing to be an invaluable tool in the development of one's musical ear and, over the years, I have spent countless glorious hours transcribing different kinds of music, either guitar-oriented or not.
Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it.
I'm thrilled to partner with Gillette to help men understand what women want. If we're able to give them that information, and Gillette can give them the tools to get there, then we both win, and that's very exciting.
I think we're all very curious about our own minds, but we just may not have the tools to channel that.
Tying the little folks with the older folks is a great and powerful tool to preserve and to protect the family and the individual.