Heartbreaking sequence from Dogtown and Z-Boyz about skateboarder Jay Adams that beautifully illustrates an unfortunate truth: those with the most slavish devotion to their art, rarely have the life management and self-promotion skills to capitalize on their talent.

“You get one chance at doing this. And if you miss it, you don’t get it again. And that’s the hardest part of it, that’s the hardest part. It’s hard for me to even see it, because I see it in a guy like Jay Adams and I go: he should have had it all. Jay should have had it all. And it makes me so sad that he didn’t… because he was… he was better than all of us.”

—Stacy Peralta