Quotes About Experience

Broaden your work experience - either within your company or through your job progression in other companies.

I went to a progressive primary school in Kendal, followed by a boys' grammar school and then Cambridge.

I'll put my progressive credentials up against anyone's.

I've played with all of the heavyweights in the modern jazz, progressive jazz movement. I've been fortunate enough to play with them, a who's who. All of those guys, I've been fortunate enough to have performed with.

In 2003 and again in 2010, I was fired from my job as editor-in-chief of a 'progressive' paper, Al-Watan. During the years in between, I served as media adviser to Prince Turki al-Faisal, the Saudi ambassador to Britain and then the United States.

My experience with playing in odd time signatures was progressive rock and learning King Crimson songs as a kid coming up and maybe learning Pink Floyd, 'Money,' that kind of thing.

I was fortunate to write pretty much a year out of film school and start making movies in the Hollywood studio system. But with each progressive film it became more frustrating not being able to speak and say things I wanted to say.

'Sara' was the first film project I worked on as an actress; it's a short film.

Actually, the first film that I did was more like college boys project.

I love Chicago. I wouldn't be where I am now, and I certainly wouldn't have the confidence that I hope that I project, if I'd not lived in Chicago.

Also, I plan to screw something up on every movie I do so that I can learn from my mistakes and become a better director with each project.

I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there.

I love working with new directors. There's so much drive and effort. It still comes down to the character for me, but if it's a character I really want to play, I would never not do the project because of a new director.

It was really hard to find another project after my first film.

This is going to sound pretentious and esoteric, but I truly mean it from the bottom of my heart. Acting has always been a spiritual journey for me. The very first project I ever acted on paralleled my experience so perfectly even before I was aware of it.

I've seen 'Babel' four times. And each time I realize anew what a monumental project that had been for me.

So much of listening to lyrically driven music is projecting your own feelings and experiences into the music.

I, over the years, have always felt more comfortable if I could go into a projection room and look at a film and not really know what to expect. If you read the script first, you form all kinds of preconceptions about how things look, what the location's like, what the actors are like.

A lot of the things that bore adults don't bore children, and people forget that. In some ways, boredom is a projection of adults because we can't remember what childhood was like.

I think 'Mindhunter' has allowed me to get a chance to do larger projects.

I look for projects with filmmakers who want to make things that give the audience a fresh experience.

For me, life is about experiencing many new things and working with good people, working on good projects, and in general, just having any kind of job.

I haven't really had that many opportunities to play 'lead' so I guess I jumped at the chance. I have also never done any 'sci-fi' projects and thought it might be fun.

I'm so happy in the projects that I'm able to make, to be involved in projects like this. This isn't always where it was at for me, I started working when I was a kid. I'm just a different person now, I'm 30. I started working when I was 11 and it's a different ballgame.