For me, I don’t have a grand vision planned or an end goal. I’m just exploring what’s given to me at any given moment.
I often attribute my screenwriting to journalism because they drill in the who, what, when, where and why – but we really need to land on that why. That’s what I’ve been exploring in my writing for many years and trying to get better at.
I often have an idea and it starts splintering off into a whole lot of directions; I’m interested in exploring every single one of them.
What I’ve found is if you get the right characters in the right story and put them in the right setting – and let them go – they tend to do all the exploring of the issues for you. Because people are interesting and political and funny and sad.
I was a pretty free-spirited kid. I was part of a notorious group of troublemakers who didn’t do well in school but had a great time exploring Beijing from the inside out.
I think every artist subconsciously wants to evolve themselves. Sometimes they get stuck in ruts because of pop culture, peer pressure, stuff like that. But what excites me most is exploring my own musical insights and expanding upon them.
I don’t really play a lot of slide in general, but it was fun getting into that style and exploring it.
Women are just more oriented toward feelings – and I don’t mean that in a negative way. But with a male actor and a male director, the emotional exploration can only go so far. With a female director, you can end up exploring so many more depths.
I’m no Ripley. I had doubts that I could play her as strongly as she had to be played, but I must say that it was fun exploring that side of myself. Women don’t get to do that very often.
I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good – which is the family.
Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a warm and wet world into a barren landscape. By exploring and understanding Mars, we may gain key insights into the past and future of our own world.
I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking.
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The best movies have one sentence that they’re exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward.
English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
The way I sort of approach my work is that the historical and socioeconomic and cultural worlds that the music is exploring dictate the visual experience and the way that we approach it specifically on film.
I’m not so interested in the expression of something, but I’m more interested in what the material can do. And so that’s why I keep exploring.
Films can be entertaining without shying away from exploring something. They can be magical and have fantasy, but also can have enough reality that you can be really emotionally invested.
Mainstream animated movies are dumbed-down and sanitised: they make the world in their own image rather than exploring the limitless possibilities that are out there.
I’ve been exploring different options for when I’m done skiing. I have the Turtle Ridge Foundation, which is helping a bunch of worthy causes around the Northeast. I’ve also started SkiSpace, which is an online social network that basically deals with all things based around any snow sport.
Well, I think that part of being young is not exactly knowing why you do some of the things that you do. And it’s by exploring your life or experimenting or making mistakes and learning from them hopefully that you start to forge an identity.
I was really interested in doing a martial arts movie, but maybe exploring ideas that maybe you wouldn’t think to explore in a martial arts movie.
I grew up like Huck Finn, always outdoors, exploring, collecting frogs – there was space everywhere. I want my kids to experience that too. I love being outside.
You can’t be on the cusp of innovation and at the forefront of technology if you’re wearing blinders. If you don’t have an exploration program where you’re exploring your world here on Earth, underwater, and in space, then you’re wearing blinders and handicapping yourself.
After Jama Masjid, I always stop at India Gate as exploring Delhi is never complete without visiting that place where I spent so many evenings as a child.
Sylvia Plath wasn’t scared of exploring the darker side of her psyche.
Exploring is one of my favorite things to do, but I don’t really want to be in a tour group. I like doing it alone or with whomever I’m traveling with.
On the acquisition of Louisiana, in the year 1803, the attention of the government of the United States, was early directed towards exploring and improving the new territory.
Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it’s about not getting bored.
My wife is cool enough to let me write about personal things, to be a songwriter exploring the shadowy sides of love.
Science is about exploring the unknown and cannot offer guarantees.
I am extremely eclectic in choosing my films as an audience, and as a direct result of that, I love exploring, I love cinema, and I love learning from different experiences.
I enjoy exploring music so much.
We should be exploring consciousness at the neural level and higher, where the arrow of causal analysis points up toward such principles as emergence and self-organization.
I wanted to keep exploring… I’m not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film.
Madrid is enjoyed most from the ground, exploring your way through its narrow streets that always lead to some intriguing park, market, tapas bar or street performer. Each night we’d leave our hotel to begin a new adventure in Madrid and nine out of 10 times, we’d walk through the Plaza Mayor.
I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I’m just interested in life and the world and exploring.
Exploring Mars is a far different venture from Apollo expeditions to the moon; it necessitates leaving our home planet on lengthy missions with a constrained return capability.
With BSG, sci-fi is the human experience taken beyond the envelope. When I first became involved with the project, I knew that I would be able to play a human being for many years, exploring and reflecting on issues that would impact people’s lives.
It’s impossible to feel the creative juices flowing if you’re always worried about the end result. I think really, really good work comes out of people being quite open, not stressed, really exploring, trying to be imaginative, without worrying too much about the end result.
I think that’s because believable action is based on authenticity, and accuracy is very important to me. I always spend time researching my novels, exploring the customs and attitudes of the county I’m using for their setting.
I’ve always been interested in exploration and the history of exploring the world, but it seems like we’ve found everything now.
One of the things the novel can do is address big questions in ways that are accessible to people. It’s not that I want to teach people, but these are the things that interest me, and this is my medium for exploring ideas, and I think the potential of novels to do that is massive.
The one thing I’ve learned exploring the deep is that you just can’t even begin to imagine some of the bizarre creatures that are down there.
Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty.
I’ve grown up with an active outdoor lifestyle. Before I lived in Australia, I ran a construction company in Oregon, U.S.A. I also owned horses and would spend several weeks a year exploring Oregon’s beautiful wilderness areas on horseback.
I just thought ‘Blue’ was a great premise and a great set-up for conflict. I love the idea of exploring a character who’s living a secret life and is going to drown in the lies she’s telling.
Over the years, a number of other intriguing experimental ideas and areas of investigation have been the objects of my attention, and I have devoted some time and effort to exploring the inherent possbilities.
I can sing ‘Happy Birthday’ to you in twelve different places, but one of them is going to make you feel a certain thing, maybe it’s a vulnerability, maybe an innocence, maybe another way is sexy and soulful or bluesy whatever it is, but with singers, exploring keys, I think, is important.
Darwin didn’t walk around the Galapagos and come up with the theory of evolution. He was exploring, collecting, making observations. It wasn’t until he got back and went through the samples that he noticed the differences among them and put them in context.
I think, as a director, it’s always worth pushing yourself and finding out new areas and exploring new ways to tell story.
