Quotes About Discovery

It's important that you are not embarrassed when you try something new.

I think that's the beauty of it - knowing you're not where you want to be, there is something new you can learn every day. That gets you excited.

Each film has taught me something new - be it about myself, my craft, my profession, people.

What I feel like science fiction fans respond to is just people trying to hit them with something new, something they haven't seen. And if you do that you'll be okay.

When I did my first film, I had a fair idea of what I liked and what I didn't while watching an actor in front of the camera. After I finished the film, I thought I had exhausted everything I knew. As I moved from one story, setting and character to another, I discovered something new.

I like to come back to the science fiction of Stanislaw Lem. He is comforting but also funny, and although I know his books, there's always something new to discover.

Personally, I like narrating stories that revolve around something new. I'd find it very boring otherwise.

It's always like I am carrying a heavy cross with me on the sets. So it was important for me to try something new.

For us players, it's good to learn and hear something new.

Usually I get a feel for cities real quick, but Brooklyn is different. It's something new every day. But that's what makes it so special, that's why there's no place like it.

Every time I read a book, I find something new.

Some people come to a restaurant because they want to have something new all the time.

Whether you're going to a museum or a flea market or flipping through a book, always be on the lookout for something special.

Once I tried to find myself as a musician and a composer, I went back and saw that there was something special about Puerto Rican music. I knew that before, but had never sat down and thought about it. The more I learned about it, the more it found its way into the music I was writing.

It's very important to follow your instincts because, beyond what you know exists or what you're told exists in a given area, your intuition plays a big part in finding something special.

I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's.

What people call serendipity sometimes is just having your eyes open.

Sometimes, what you're looking for is already there.

Happy accidents are real gifts, and they can open the door to a future that didn't even exist. It's kind of nice sometimes to set up something to encourage or allow happy accidents to happen.

I find it somewhat liberating to jump, to dive into things that are the opposite of me.

For the most part, boys are very physical. It's not enough for them to be told they have what it takes and they have greatness. They have to discover for themselves. We learn by doing. The doing has to be somewhat physical.

I was a difficult kid and a somewhat indifferent student but realized somehow that a new start at a good place, and far from home, was important.

I started out writing poems before I figured to put melodies to them and play the guitar. Somewhere, there's a book out there on all those early songs and poems. I hope no one ever finds it. I don't think it's my finest work.

But maybe it's up in the hills under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you find, whatever you find, is always only part of the missing, and writing is the way the poet finds out what it is he found.