Quotes About Experience

Some people aren't smart enough to understand the intellectual part of a being. That's why as a 30-year-old you don't have a conversation with a 15-year-old. I don't dine with 15-year-olds and talk about life. Our experiences are completely different.

The most successful food, I think, is food that both appeals to the super-sophisticated diner or foodie and to the lay diner at the same time.

It was incredible to have J Dilla in your dining room making beats - it was one of the greatest experiences I've had.

Make your having dinner out become The Event of the Night, instead of just the beginning.

I learned marketing at my dinner table.

My family - my brothers and I especially - like dinners out and are really adventurous with food.

I mean, in rock music terms I'm like a dinosaur.

Coming back to Dinosaur Jr. and actually writing songs for the band was really intense for me.

We have been called old rockers, rock pensioners, and dinosaurs.

I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been around a long time, it's like dinosaurs are coming back. It's all new. I'm having to be on my own and seeing how exciting life can be now.

People tell you not to work with children and animals, and I chose to work with a 7-year-old and several dinosaurs!

Songs you can dip in and out of, but a book... well, it can overpower you.

The diploma has become a brand and learning should never be about a brand. Learning, the real kind, actually never ends.

My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.

Let my critics direct a movie if they think it's so easy!

I appreciate my role as an actor much more after I direct because it's just easier.

Being an actor helps me direct a little bit, when I do that, which I haven't been able to do that much, but I plan to in the future. There are a lot of reasons for that, but certainly because I feel like you know how to talk to actors, and you know what they need from you if you've been one yourself.

The best actors are always the ones who've directed as well, as they understand all the problems you face.

I did 'Daddy' when I was 17 years old. My father, Mahesh Bhatt, directed the movie, and he cast me.

I'd never directed before and this movie's too important to me to put in the hands of some guy who has never directed. Even if it's me.

I like to work, and I worked for years as a camera person before I directed.

Even though I've acted in many films, I have directed for the first time, and I will always consider myself a student.

I had directed some tele films years ago.

I think the biggest advice I would give to any actor who's directing and also acting at the same time is don't even watch your coverage. You do a scene, and then, you know what you did; it doesn't matter what you look like.