Quotes About Experience

We were extremely lucky that someone discovered us as a band and that we got to experience a type of cinderella story.

I don't know anything about life, but everything about cinema.

Doing cinema is not about watching yourself.

I love entering the bowels of the cinema and immersing myself in another world.

There's a difference between watching a film and watching a bit of cinema and enjoying a film as a piece of cinema.

We can't keep thinking in a limited way about what cinema is. We still don't know what cinema is. Maybe cinema could only really apply to the past or the first 100 years, when people actually went to a theater to see a film, you see?

The only acting I knew when I was a boy came from Lochgelly. With a double bill, people would live their lives in the cinema. You would even see babies being breastfed in the audience.

I think working as an assistant was a part of knowing people who like cinema, and to learn from a movie, you have to watch it.

I like it when I go into a cinema and I'm not aware that I'm there; I'm totally involved in the film for two hours.

I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.

I only watch films in the cinema. I'm old fashioned. I'm a lost cause.

I love films that take place over a short period of time, and I feel that those films are in our cinematic DNA.

I really do believe that the experience of having a child is going to actually make me a much better cinematographer.

I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.

I've kind of found out that things in life come full circle anyway.

Animals are good for teaching children about the circle of life.

What we take away from our school and college years is especially personal and rarely transferable to someone standing outside that circle of experience.

I don't respect anyone who has a background on the independent circuit.

You don't know why someone is in a certain circumstance and why they chose to be there. Sometimes it's just about having an experience and learning. I don't think you can begrudge someone that.

Never ask yourself what you have learned... only ask yourself what are the circumstances which are different from last year. In that way, you can apply last year's lessons.

I'm shocked to be saying this, but as a child, I never went to a circus. It cost too much.

Seeing what kinds of songs work in other cities and other parts of the world was pretty eye-opening. I know it changed how I approached the second record big-time.

I've been fortunate enough to travel to Edinburgh a few times over the last few years, and I just loved the city. I find it one of the more beautiful cities in Europe.

You want to be a citizen of the world, and then life happens, and you forget to be a citizen of the world; you're a citizen of your own existence.