Quotes About Exploration

I like not knowing what's around the corner. It's always been that way, and maybe that's one of the reasons why I'm an actor.

I think it's okay not knowing what you want to become.

Don't be afraid to try new things, because I just tried shot put not knowing my family history behind it, and trying it led me to the rest of my life.

When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it.

I still go out, but not a lot. If I go to see music, it's usually to the Blue Note, jazz clubs, things like that. When I travel, I find out where the jazz clubs are.

I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step.

I never carry a notebook while walking around London. I just pick those things up. I'm very good at quizzes.

As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and notebooks.

I make notebooks for characters, and it kind of becomes a bible.

Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way.

I'm happy we're about to start inviting people into the thing we've been working on!! It's called Pinwheel, and it's a way to find and leave notes all around the world.

I don't have a drawer full of ideas. I kind of look around and take notes and wonder what could actually be a whole movie. And each time, I think I'm going to do it more commercial this time; I'm going to get a big budget and make it. But I always come up with some small idea.

There are only so many chords and notes in the world.

I used to come home and play piano all day by ear and make songs up or figure out my favourite Elvis songs. I'd make up games by blindfolding myself and singing the harmony to whatever notes I'd play.

Sometimes you can just record anything and slow it down hugely and you'll find all these hidden notes and frequencies that match up really nicely.

I really wanted, when I was a little, little kid, I wanted to collect rocks. I don't know why. I didn't know nothin' about them. I just liked to pick them up and keep em.

People get caught up in recreating something, and that actually hurts the genre of music because there's nothing new.

I'm not really into sci-fi movies, but I'm into the science of space a lot. I love astronomy and thinking about the nothingness of the everythingness of space.

I like to move forward and notice things along the roadside that indicate where I should go.

Look for cars where people might not look, like shopping centres or notice boards as you can find some real gems that other people have not even thought of.

I like driving. A lot. I think that's something I just enjoy the most. I can, at a moment's notice, drive across the country if, you know, I had to.

I've noticed one in five ideas never amount to anything.

If I do a film, I go to the place where it is based on, interact with people, and then, I believe, you pick up things without you even noticing.

The sensation of flying is incredible, and it's such a miraculous notion to go into the air and see the world without delineation.