Quotes About Experience

The time I learned the most in restaurants was when I was alone in a basement, figuring it out on my own.

I love books that give you space to climb inside there. And you have to run to keep up in places, and you have to fill in a lot of blanks yourself. So it almost becomes your story.

My emotion is real, and my everyday life is filled with the same feeling.

I like a novel to have a certain amount of dead time and filler - unremarkable scenery, descriptions of getting from point A to point B, dialogue in which not much is said - in between the parts that are electric. With a long work that you don't read in one sitting, I think that makes for the best reading experience.

My whole musical life has been an educational process, and I'm just furthering my education and filling in the blanks. There's stuff that I want to know that I don't know.

To make this announcement fills me with great sadness, but I know I have been blessed in so many ways to have experienced what I have with the England rugby team.

Shooting for Aamar Pratigya' was a completely delightful experience for the 25 days I shot for the film.

When I'm making a film, I'm the audience.

When a film is good, the lines between single-screen and multiplex blur.

'When Marnie Was There' was the first animated film I've ever done.

Here is something no real celebrity will ever tell you: film acting is not very fun. Doing the same thing over and over again until, in the director's eyes, you 'get it right' does not allow for very much creative freedom... In terms of sheer adrenaline, film has absolutely nothing on theater.

I actually came out of drama school and went into two years of working in film and television, which was a happy accident.

I don't know anything about the film industry. I thought I knew films, but apparently, I don't know films or people!

I didn't go to film school.

Film is a very specific world in which I don't think you really need to go to film school.

I actually went to film school, but I didn't like it. I'm basically self-taught.

And it's just my opinion that I don't think film school is necessary for filmmakers. But I don't want to discourage someone who really wants to learn that way.

I didn't go to film school, I went to acting school.

I actually went to film school and was making experimental films for a short time, so it wasn't such a leap.

I'll definitely say that, before film school, I didn't have much of a film-history background. I didn't know much about classic cinema.

You can do all the film school you want in classrooms, but if you are on the set, you are going to learn so much more because you are really in the middle of doing it.

I didn't go to film school. I had been an actor in movies, I had been in plays, and then I just sort of jumped into it.

I went to film school; I went to NYU film school.

I went to film school at UT Austin.