Quotes About Experience

I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.

I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.

Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.

Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work.

None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.

I've been lucky to be able to work with great people and on interesting material.

For the millions of us who live glued to computer keyboards at work and TV monitors at home, food may be more than entertainment. It may be the only sensual experience left.

I think certain movies work and that is part of the magic of it all. We can't truly define why something succeeds.

I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.

Working in film, if you work with great directors, you learn that after every take you must let go. Sitting with my wife at the Academy Awards, we both let the moment just go.

The things which hurt, instruct.

If I had been at a University I don't think I would have been able to have the experience I had in my Smithsonian work. I don't think I have been as successful

Problem solving, and I don't mean algebra, seems to be my life's work. Maybe it's everyone's life's work.

I have been going to Italy since 1980, but I always went to do work. I did not live overseas, because I do not like running around with everything I own in a paper bag.

I never wanted to retire. I wanted to kind of shift my work pattern so I could stay fresh and invigorated, and use the experience that I had gained in 30 years, but in a slightly different direction.

Self-taught are those without formal education. Most self-taught artists have missing ingredients to their work.

I thought I was going to stay at Google, because it was a great place to work.

I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.

I went to London and performed in Eric Clapton's concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I'll work with him any time he asks me.

The very basis of the work- the very core of the work, is that everything we do can come always new.

To truly know what works, you have to learn what doesn't work first.

Planet of the Apes was a gigantic challenge, making the clothes work so people could do stunts and action in the clothes. I really learned a lot about that in that movie.

Consequently, their school [film-school ] was the school of life, and it was very much reflected in their work.

I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it.