Quotes About Exploration

Coming from New Zealand, all the music I listen to is not made by New Zealanders. People never come to New Zealand to play a show because it's in the middle of nowhere.

I really want to see New Zealand; it's a beautiful place.

I've had a quiet fascination with New Zealand for most of my life.

I get inspired in certain places. You have to write in places like Amsterdam or Paris or New Zealand, when you're standing on a yacht, looking out at the middle of the ocean.

I always like to look for adventure when I go away. I have gone on several horse adventures with my wife - from Guangxi we went up to the High Tibetan region. We also went along the Hurunui River on horseback in the South Island of New Zealand.

I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?

What happens with every role, you have to trick yourself, you have to creatively find ways to explore the mental state of your character.

For novelists, the imagination is everything. The trick is to guide one's imagination using research. I love using old maps. When I wrote my novels on London and New York, I found wonderful historical atlases. Paris has the most lavish maps of all.

It is sometimes said that the major discoveries have already been made and that there is nothing important left to find. This attitude is altogether too pessimistic. There are plenty of ideas and plenty of things left to discover. The trick is to find the right path from one to the other.

I use the computer as a tool. Like chance or the camera or the other tools I've used, it can open my eye to other ways of seeing or of making dances. It's not simply to do a trick.

'Ulysses' is like a big box of tricks that you can dive into. Each time you read it, you find something new.

I always looked at myself as a physicist learning new tricks by looking at nature.

What drives me now is the fact that I feel like I still have so many tricks that I want to learn and so many things that I can still do. And so many cool things outside of sports that I have been doing.

I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film.

Spaceflight is a tricky business. It is definitely difficult, and I think we forget that sometime.

Doing science fiction at a high level is tricky. It's really tricky.

Scrivener can be a tricky beast to get your head around. When you do, a bell rings, and suddenly it all seems perfectly clear. But to reach that stage you have to understand what it can do, and try it out for yourself. Which can be daunting.

We don't know how many planets we're going to have to examine before we find life, and not finding it on 10 or 100 doesn't mean it's not there. This may be very tricky.

I've tried everything. I've done therapy, I've done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing.

As an actor, I have tried to do new things, and that's why I have done few films.

I worked as a scaffolder, worked as a chef, tried my hand working in a coffee shop, tried my hand as a joiner.

I tried my hand at photography and worked with a studio for six months.

It's been a twisty-turny path for me. I was studying to be a history professor, and then I left that, went to film school, and tried to be like my heroes, like, Spike Lee and Hal Hartly.

I've tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I'll try to tailor-make it.