Quotes About Exploration

Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.

I always think it's interesting to switch genres, because if I read a script and I know exactly how to manifest a story, I don't really want to do it anymore, because I've already done it in my head.

When I'm doing just music all the time, it can get really overwhelming. It's always challenging to switch it up a bit. And just because you're a musician, it doesn't mean that music is your only creative outlet.

I'm reading a lot of different books, but I always think I have to switch it up a little bit. It's like food - everything in moderation, same with my books, same with my reading. You read books that are good for you and you learn a lot of stuff, then you read 'Fifty Shades of Grey,' which is like candy.

If you look at my movie career, I do switch it up a lot. I'm always looking for a lot of different parts. It's been a while since I've been in a situation that was romantic.

I'd love to make the switch over to NFL. I'd love to try it but I'm not really sure what position I'd play. I'd probably have to be a kicker.

My college coach was like, 'You ever thought of switch hitting,' and I was like, 'You know, I thought about it but I never really tried it.'

With every film, for which I'm the only composer, I try to switch genres. I find that really exciting.

Switching genres actually motivates me.

Some of the joy in acting is switching it up: being able to do something that's different than what you've been doing.

Really, I get inspired by just switching projects and instrumentation and things like that - that creative part of just being different every time is really what inspires me.

I just got back from Switzerland, which I've never been to. I went to Switzerland and Amsterdam.

I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America.

Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.

My son loves swords and shields and dragons.

When I was 23, I went backpacking around Australia for three months. I saved up a few grand, quit my job and flew to Sydney, then went to Melbourne and up the East Coast, which was an incredible experience. I remember running out of money and getting my mum to send me a few hundred quid, which helped me get by.

When I was 17, I moved to Sydney to study set design at NIDA.

I know how to get around London better than Sydney.

I definitely love Australia. I've been to Sydney and Melbourne a couple of times, and I love those places.

I'm an Australian - I grew up in Melbourne and Sydney - but as a kid you don't learn much about the Kimberley.

I have spent a lot of time in L.A. It's sort of like my third home - Sydney, rural Tasmania and then L.A.

The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey.

Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.

I think math is a hugely creative field, because there are some very well-defined operations that you have to work within. You are, in a sense, straightjacketed by the rules of the mathematics. But within that constrained environment, it's up to you what you do with the symbols.