Quotes About Exploration

Horror is one of the few genres that allows you to explore areas in film that normally you wouldn't otherwise.

I try to study a genre I don't really listen to on a day-to-day-basis because there is honestly inspiration everywhere: it's best to go digging in places you don't normally go.

Since one of my roles is that of a con man, I actually mingled with a few pickpockets in north Chennai to get a hang of their body language and mindset.

Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.

Cod is more responsible for the discovery of the New World than almost anything else. Drove the Vikings across the North Atlantic, and John Cabot discovered America by looking for cod.

I did all of California from north to south. I did Florida from north to south. I went to the Midwest. I spent time discovering the culture because I thought I was going to stay in America for only two years. Then I decided to come to New York.

I grew up sailing in the North Sea.

I've been to North Africa many times.

My first time coming over to North America was to New York around Christmastime when I was 7. My mom was a flight attendant, and she got put on to the Trans-Atlantic route over Christmastime, so she brought the whole family.

There are lots of places I would love to go to in Europe and North America.

I'm really interested in history and when I looked into the settlers who came to my home state, North Carolina, I found that the largest settlement of Hebridean islanders outside of Scotland was right there in North Carolina.

I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place was shaping my experience of the world. I had to go to the Northeast for graduate school because I felt like I had to get far away from my South, be outside it, to understand it.

I would like to go to Iceland to see the northern lights.

I am drawn to cold, desolate places rather than Hawaii. I actually love Hawaii too, but I tend to go to Iceland or Norway or Northern Japan - northern places for whatever reason. Which aren't necessarily the best places to tour.

The biggest adventure is to move into an area in which you are not an expert. Sometimes I joke that I am not interested in doing re-search, only search.

I'm not interested in writing overtly autobiographical songs. I would rather explore interesting stories. I like the idea of the songs being evocative and distinctive, so I have in my mind the atmosphere that a film could evoke. I like to think of them existing in their own little world.

What I generally tell a class is that if you're not interested in anybody else's work but your own, take another class.

My methodology is not knowing what I'm doing and making that work for me.

I love starting a track in one place and not knowing where it's going to end up.

That's what I'm interested in: the space in between, the moment of imagining what is possible and yet not knowing what that is.

I like to go around, and people not knowing who I am.

Sometimes, not knowing what you're doing allows you to do things you never knew you could do.

I kind of like not knowing how to do something - it's more exciting.

I love connecting with a character out of the blue, not knowing why.