Quotes About Fascination

I fell in love with electricity.

When I found out more about the Maori culture, I fell in love with it, and with the people, too.

It's not often that I'm being called femme fatale.

The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try.

Before filming 'The Crown,' I couldn't care less about the royal family. But now... I'm obsessed.

In pre-school, I was drawing dinosaurs - I was huge into dinosaurs. I wanted to be a paleontologist, not a cartoonist or a filmmaker or anything like that - just a paleontologist. So I would draw dinosaurs.

I guess I have a fascination with the idea of puppeteering. I think, in a lot of ways, directing is puppeteering. I guess I see a lot of analogies between what puppeteers and filmmakers do.

Some movies are simply magical. You can't really put your finger on any particular reason behind its success.

After finishing 'The Book of Life,' I needed a bit of a break from the Bishops and de Clermonts. Honestly, I wasn't sure when - or even if! - they would capture all of my attention again.

I've got friends who are pyrotechnics who do big fire shows, so I'm really fascinated by that.

I've always wanted to go to Timbuktu. First of all I think it has the best name of anywhere in the world.

I never really fitted in, because I've always been interested in really dark things.

I think great whites are the most beautiful and perfect creatures I've ever seen.

I used to look at horror movies as being really real and it would totally freak me out and give me nightmares. Now I watch and think, 'whoa how'd they do that?'

Your father tells you a story when you're a kid, or your mother or your uncle or whoever it is. You sit there with your mouth open, and your mind goes to all these places they're telling you about that you've never seen, and you're agape. You just can't believe that things can happen like that - but it's just so direct.

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

It was very hard not to get utterly and wholeheartedly drawn into the stories on 'The Gift.'

The recent fascination, I think, reflects the shift in approach by law enforcement officials to embrace technology as wholeheartedly as the rest of the world.

We always get bored with those whom we bore.

If I am offered a biopic on a person people know almost everything about, what is the point doing it? A film on someone about whom very less is known is something that would interest me.

It's mostly directors whom I get starstruck around.

I was anti social, but at the same time, people gravitated to that because they wanted to figure out who I was and why I was how I was.

Glamour invites us to live in a different world. It has to simultaneously be mysterious, a little bit distant - that's why, often in these glamour shots, the person is not looking at the audience, it's why sunglasses are glamorous - but also not so far above us that we can't identify with the person.

If incredible creatures like sharks can exist, why not Bigfoot? When I look at sharks, they're the most terrifying, monstrous, dinosaur-like things. To this day, I'm so fascinated by them and can't get my head around how they are on Planet Earth at all.