Quotes About Learning

There's a need to dig up the past and analyze it.

In my family, education was something you endured. My parents weren't educated past high school, and the only book in our house was a 'Reader's Digest' condensed book. Can you imagine?

But my father is a very curious man. If he develops an interest in something, he makes sure that he learns it. And that attitude helped me teach him about the digital world.

I've learned to use big words. Because I'm an avid reader, I can prove myself as a smart and diligent person.

His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.

I learned marketing at my dinner table.

I've always been interested in Jewish culture, but never had a chance to dip into it.

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

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

I still don't know much about directing a movie.

But I didn't know much about directing a movie.

I want to go to film college to learn about the departments and how everything works. Then I'm going to start directing.

I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television.

I'm not big on reading directions. I can't do that. I'm just not from that world.

People learn more if they're learning in directly engaging ways.

Working with Bob Weir directly, we learned how high the bar is for Dead music.

When you try to teach children things, you're trying not necessarily to do it directly.

As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting.

Working with a great director is like getting a master class in acting.

Well, this is the second time I've done New Directors.

I've been lucky to learn by playing all kinds of roles and watching all kinds of really good cinematographers, actors, and directors for many years before people were even aware of me in terms of audience.

First time films are hard. Even with some of the greatest directors, you look back at their first film, and you are just going, 'That movie is kind of bad.'

You work with great directors and terrible directors, and so you learn; you take what you think will work for you.

I guess once you've been acting for a long time, you glean the great bits of good directors and the bad bits from other directors, and you know the way that you would like to be directed.