Passion and enthusiasm in a job
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Carl:
Hi, my name's Carl and I'd like to know what qualities and characteristics you'd need to do your job, or something similar.
Richard:
Well, I'll tell you what qualities and characteristics I look for in people that want to come and work with us. People immediately think that they have to be incredibly talented to work in the effects industry.
We don't look for talent; we look for passion, enthusiasm, and dedication. Because, if you could be the most talented person in the world but if you don't have those three elements, you have nothing.
If you have no passion in yourself - no desire to pursue something - then you're never going to get anywhere. You've got to be enthusiastic and you've got to have this incredible ability to just soldier on.
All of you will try to do things in your careers, will try to do things, try and get jobs - and you will fail. You will be knocked back, as I was time and time again, as everyone is. But the whole success of your life will be getting back up onto your feet and going at it again with a passion and an enthusiasm.
Your classes you're taking are focused very much on the mathematics and the sciences. One of our people - the man that actually developed the techniques of creating these materials - comes from the very background that you are studying right now. He was a trained chemist and he joined us with this passion from a chemist background - to want to learn how to make prosthetics and he developed all the chemistry on Lord of the Rings.
So it doesn't matter what your particular training is - it's all about your relative levels of enthusiasm, and that's what we look for when people come and see us.