Common thread I've noticed lately, just wanted to share some quotes (and write down some inspirational YouTube videos I've found over the years)

Kazuo Oga, Ghibli Landscape Painter - I want to make the most of the misty effects I can get while the paper is still wet. Even if I'm not totally satisfied with the color, I'll go with it.
(film crew) - You can't always predict the results?
(Oga) - Often I can't. Sometimes it isn't quite what I had in mind. But I can still go with it...I have a hunch this is the color. To see if it works here, I just have to try it.

(Japanese cartoons need lots and lots of background paintings, so to keep costs down they'd use very cheap poster paint. Nicker Poster Color used to be $80 for a set of 24 jars, but since this video came out, prices have been going WAY up. I wonder why.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTZhMGMe3SU 24:09

Adam Savage, Maker, Mythbusters - Have goals. Set goals. Regularly assess where you are and where you want to be in terms of them. This is a kind of prayer that works and works well. Allow for the fact that things will never turn out like you think they will, and you must be prepared to end up miles from where you intend.

https://www.youtube.com/user/testedcom

Stephen King, Horror Author - Can't find the quote, but from what I remember in his book On Writing, he describes it like digging for bones. You're going to want a T-Rex really bad, but you have to be mature enough to lay out what you've worked for, and use what's there. Forcing a T-Rex from Triceratops bones will not make a very good story.

Neil Corbould, Visual Effects Supervisor on Alien: Covenant -
(Savage) You were saying he (Ridley Scott) likes rolling with the punches. I mean, we're standing on a set that got rained on this weekend and so it wasn't supposed to have water on it.
(Neil) He'll figure out...maybe there was a torrential storm, or he'll add rain to one of the sequences to make it work.
(this blew my mind. multimillion dollar project, it rained on his massive set, and Ridley's like: I like rain. It rained in this sequence, now.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_kr8mAM5Dg 7:53

Simon Cade, Student Filmmaker, DSLRGuide - I'm a firm believer that you are more important than your camera. Let's imagine that I saved up, and bought a new camera. What I'm telling myself is that technology is what's holding me back most right now. I don't want the most exciting part of my week to be taking a product out of it's box.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb58PSxuj8s 3:15

Casey Neistat, Vlogger - Gear doesn't matter. Lemme explain. Right now, there's a bunch of people writing comments below that are like "easy for you to say, you have all these expensive cameras." That's very true. I do. But I didn't always. My HBO show - was shot on this camera. This isn't even high def. This is shooting on tape. And Bikelanes was shot on this little camera. You can buy these things used on Amazon for like ninety bucks. If all it took to be good was to have the right equipment, the people who had the most money would always win. This is a movie called Pan. It premiered this weekend. (it bombed) Now, if all it took to make stuff was to have the right equipment, trust me. Whoever made that movie with their 155 million dollar budget had WAY better cameras than you could ever afford.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLSUrTxquyE 7:26

Alessandro Cortini, Modular Synthesizer Musician, Nine Inch Nails - Can't find anything quotable, but when you're working with something as complicated as a modular, embracing chaos and more or less using whatever you discover as you work is a very common mindset among synth musicians.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MK.....Hw&t=1143s 21:14

Thom Yorke, Musician, Frontman, Radiohead - I bought a piano for my house, a proper nice one – a baby grand. And this (Everything in it's Right Place) was the first thing I wrote on it. And I’m such a shit piano player. I remember this Tom Waits quote from years ago, that what keeps him going as a songwriter is his complete ignorance of the instruments he’s using. So everything’s a novelty. That’s one of the reasons I wanted to get into computers and synths, because I didn’t understand how the fuck they worked. I had no idea what ADSR meant.

(Yeah, he bought an expensive piano, that doesn't fit the theme of this journal. BUT. You try writing a song on instruments you don't know how to use!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvMql9XgIg0 6:26

Kai Wong - Photographer, The Jeremy Clarkson of Cameras - (He did a series of videos where he'd hire a pro photographer to work with really cheap crappy cameras, and their results are damned good.)
It's good to know what you want out of your subject, and also out of your camera. You can't always have the best equipment, and have subjects you are familiar working with. The key is to know what you want in your frame, and being confident in what you want to capture.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40c3tmRCNFg 7:44

Heinrieke, Artist, Cartoonist - Can't really quote her either, but it really used to bug me how she'd draw with some of the cheapest pencils she could find! I remember her taking commissions with ballpoint pens at one point, yet her drawings are so clean, professional, detailed and simplified, stylized, finished, well done, and I'm very jealous of her work.

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/19145911/

John Lasseter, Animator, Director - No one goes to Milt Kahl or Marc Davis or Ollie Johnston or Frank Thomas: "Wow, what pencil do you use?" We have amazing tools, but they do not create anything, it is really what the filmmakers do with it."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFbOOjAC_Fg 1:52