Quotes About Exploration

I love all kinds of books, which include fiction and non-fiction.

We draw inspiration directly and indirectly from all sorts of things, like movies, documentaries, TV dramas, novels, non-fiction books, animation, science and nature shows, and our own life experiences.

When I work, I work non-stop and so hard that I barely get time to see anything but the set and home. So whenever I am done with one show, I go into my globetrotter mode and just pick a place and disappear for a while.

I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction.

If you want to be in the world I live in, which is a creative world with new ideas, then you've got to get away from the norm. You've got to go for it.

My life hasn't been the norm. The most interesting parts are before I got into show business.

I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.

I'm really drawn to adventure, and characters being plucked from normal life and sent on extraordinary adventures.

When I go to a movie, I want to see stuff that I don't see in my normal life, and I want to see it all.

For me, menswear is an experimental ground to play with something. There is scope to be gained there - you can create a new normality.

It's really fun to put yourself into a character - into shoes you wouldn't normally be in.

When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover that you know a great deal more than you thought you did.

I did all sorts of things that you wouldn't normally find on an engineer's docket, but it made an educated person out of me.

I like taking people to a world they wouldn't normally go to and to creatures that a lot of people didn't know existed.

Normally when I have students over, we sit in the house and look at the fields to try to catch a glimpse of a bobcat hunting.

Music is there to access those dark emotional corners that we don't normally get too close to.

I'm interested in doing movies I wouldn't normally be interested in doing.

It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as.

I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before.

Normally I don't race other people; I challenge the environment and my own limitations.

I'm not normally very adventurous with food.

My favorite part of the film business is the research part, with the access we get from people who are excited to be involved and the things we get to see and do, which we're not normally going to get in everyday life.

I'm actually thinking about maybe, on a spacewalk, not wearing my glasses. I normally wear those both for reading and a little bit of a distance correction, but the distance vision seems like it's gotten a little bit better. So I might go without.

I'm bored, normally, when I travel.