Quotes About Experience

I've had lots of parts in movies that I've never seen. I mean no disrespect to them. It was really fun to go act, but I'm not calling my friends and saying, 'I couldn't be more proud of this picture. You should go see it.'

As adults, we've seen so much before that we often turn the pages of a picture book without really looking. Young children tend to look more carefully.

I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history.

Doing those costume pictures was wonderful.

When you look at my pictures, you are seeing my life.

30 years and 55 pictures - not more than five that were any good, or any good for me.

I also hang the pictures low rather than high, and particularly in the case of the largest ones, often as close to the floor as is feasible, for that is the way they are painted.

I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills.

I'm an amateur photographer, apart from being a professional one, and I think maybe my amateur pictures are the better ones.

I think that televisions are unnecessarily complex. The irony is that as the pictures get better and the choice of content gets broader, that the complexity of the experience of using the television gets more and more complicated.

I have been to the South several times. The picturesque locations were a real treat for the eyes and I also love the culture.

I've actually eaten in The Ivy in London. I love their shepherd's pie.

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

I think in France, for example, we can say whatever we want about the French, but going out and dining is more about the intellectual moment to share with the people you dine with than trying to figure out what the chef did with that little piece of salmon or lobster and all that.

If I made a mistake on a piece of content, I'm going to learn from it.

When you do a piece of journalism, you may have to cut away 95 percent of what you are experiencing.

To me, meeting Buddy Guy was like meeting a piece of history.

But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting.

When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.

First, you do a piece of material that begins and ends and has a flow; it's not chopped up as in a film, where in an extreme case you might be doing the last scene of the script the first day that you go to work, and you don't know enough about the character you're playing.

The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila.

After all, the work isn't the point; the piece is.

I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.

I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.