Quotes About Exploration

Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.

Most of us, when we go out with a camera in our own country, try to find exotic subject matter to photograph.

The heavy subject matter is the most fun stuff to work with. It's the meaty things, it's the things that you get to get stuck in.

I love the novelist's freedom of going into different people's subjectivity and being able to work with them as characters.

I'm curious about everything. Even subjects that don't interest me.

I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I'm quite happy to read stuff on any of them.

I thought that I should do Marathi cinema as I knew that there I would be able to explore different subjects. But I also need the money and acting is my bread and butter. So I started doing Bollywood films merely for money.

While it's really hard to do, at the same time, I'm escaping my body, which I really want to do. I'm living someone else's life. I get very intensely into the story, into the interviews and the research. I'm experiencing things along with my subjects. I have a freedom I don't have in my physical life.

I love to read different books on completely different subjects at the same time. I cannot focus on one. I read a few pages of literature, then I jump to philosophy and at the same time I'm reading biographies of Mahler.

I think a lot of kids are interested in two science subjects: dinosaurs and aliens. The reason is almost genetic; we're hard-wired to be interested in things that might be a little dangerous.

I've always been interested in exploring difficult subjects for the mainstream.

I feel I haven't been used to the fullest of my potential. There are so many genres to explore and diverse subjects to work on.

My job in many ways has been to navigate interesting routes around subjects people think are dull.

I am more interested in asking questions about the edges of things and thoughts. So the objects I use are not initially the subjects of the work; they are its ground.

I have always chosen subjects which are little different, and not subjects that you see. That challenges me and the actors who work in the project.

Children love making things, but they don't get the same opportunities now as practical subjects seem to be sidelined. I would love to see schools offering much more in the way of practical subjects to let children see what they can do.

Young photographers must experiment all the time and not be frightened of using light - freely-shooting straight into the light if need be - making an effort to get new angles on much photographed subjects, and also discovering chemical properties of film itself.

The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.

When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime, as well as whatever hip-hop and R&B stuff was on the radio.

Everyone's got to make one submarine drama in their life.

I love submarine movies.

Part of life has to be about enjoying life and having different experiences, especially if you're with friends and you're on an adventure on a boat or a submarine - it's a lot of fun.

I was interested in science or, at least, nature from an early age, learning the names of planets, cutting cartoons with facts about animals out of the newspaper and gluing them into a scrapbook, and, with a friend when I was five or six, trying to design a submarine.

I live on an old tugboat but feel that having a submarine would be the next level.