Quotes About Experience

I remember trying so hard to get into Bon Iver. I'd lie in bed listening with my eyes screwed up, like, 'This is just depressing me.'

Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury.

The Depression did more to me than being a little Lebanese kid did.

I like to be out of my depth - that's when I learn the most.

Without 'Santini,' my life as an actor would never have had any of the depth or, at least, nothing like the depth it has now.

Acting, according to me, gets better with time and age. The more experiences you have in life, the more you have seen, the better equipped you are to deal with complexity and bring out the depth in characters.

You can measure a man's capacity by the depth of his mistakes.

People abandon you because they can't handle the depth and complexity of your experience, and that is ultimately a gift. It shows you what is important, who is important, and who is really, truly in your corner.

Playing in the Manchester derby definitely helped me.

There is no satisfaction to be derived from having had many of our arguments borne out by events.

I describe my years in Los Angeles as 12 years of culture shock.

I'm not a doctor - so I can't describe flashbacks well - but it is like you're living it again.

I just worked with Sofia Coppola and that was amazing. I learned so much from her. I can't even describe how much fun I had.

I'm loving N.Y., and words can't even describe how happy I am to be here.

Novels describe what it means to be alive at a given moment.

I'm more into describing a scenario and I move around in that scenario.

Obviously, you're a better writer at 31 then you are at 19. Hopefully, you're also a better human being and better at describing reality.

If you see an image and it's just an image, and there's a bad link or no description, and you don't know what that image is, or who took it, or what it's a picture of, it's not a very satisfying or actionable experience.

In fantasy and science fiction, world-building is an essential part of the story. But as a reader, I don't just want descriptions of food, clothing, and places. I want to understand the world to its core, through the eyes of those who live in it.

When we read about reading, we get to share an experience that is usually kept private. Incisive descriptions of reading help us to understand what is going on when our eyes move across words on the page.

Audiences deserve better.

You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.

I worked for UFA as a set designer, you know.

My dad's a sound designer, and he used to take me to work with him.