Quotes About Experience

To me, horror and comedy never work. Never worked for me, anyway.

Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of the human figure. They have acquired the ability to copy.

It's a very good thing for students also to be exposed to people who aren't film students or film scholars but who work in the world of film.

To talk about the reality of life here and the work that you do here at the university.

I was in the movies. I danced, I sang, I learned to work in front of a camera. It was like being in a repertory company.

We really haven't had very much experience with people funding their retirement out of the stock market, and we don't know, frankly, how it would work under every scenario.

Im hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work.

I wanna try being a waiter at restaurant or work to introduce Korea to other people!

I always try to create new experiences that are fun to play.

Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Sometimes it's the only story you know how to tell.

And those Texas sunsets... I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the planet, that I've ever seen.

We are going to make mistakes, but none of us can become an expert in family history work without first being a novice.

I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work.

I really enjoy directing television because you get to work in so many different genres and with different people.

I've experienced a private doubt, something that I've kept deeply inside, and then eventually delivered a piece of work that people responded to with huge enthusiasm.

Just because I'm a younger artist doesn't mean I can't work with a veteran and vice versa.

I've done approximately 15 films, and most of the things I've done have either been stunt or costume work.

I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.

So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.

You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.

Never work with animals or children.

Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us beyond language.

We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.

A work of art is great to the extent that to encounter it is to be changed.