Quotes About Exploration

For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.

My father was not really into popular music; I had to learn about that for myself.

When you go for business, you just see the airport, the offices, cities. You never see what 80 per cent of the population does in a country, so if you want to understand what Indonesia is made of, or the depths of China or India, you have to go and see.

I'm a big believer that sci-fi lives in literature, that the true sci-fi population is out there reading a gazillion authors.

My first port of call was Los Angeles. That's where I laid my first foot on America.

I'm like a ship captain: I have a woman in every port.

I would love to make a film in the outback or in Papua New Guinea, in Port Moresby. I know that it's not in Australia, but it's not too far.

We're really lucky because we have a portable studio, which enables us to work wherever we like. There is some extra work involved in setting everything up, but you can find a lot of magic and inspiration in being free to go somewhere completely different.

The Great Hall at the Met is one of the great portals of the world... From there, you can walk in any direction to almost any culture.

I love Portland. I think it's one of the best cities - I obviously haven't been to very many places, but I had one of the best times I've had on a set there.

I just wanted to move out of Portland to do something.

Portland was such a great place to be while filming because there were a lot of things to do when we weren't shooting.

I'm very open to Portland.

As soon as you put something to bed like the 'Women' book, you're never finished. There were portraits of people that I wanted to photograph - it's an endless subject.

I've always had a real interest in the way that science fiction can portray a world that could be different to our world, which I find a really exciting thought.

I would like to portray something that would challenge the actor in me.

I am fine playing 'Law & Order' and even the 'Jurassic' movies to be straight up, as far as the characters being portrayed there, but I never want to stay in straight-up land too long. I always wanted to do something where the character's world gets to be explored.

The best books I read as a child were set in far-flung places, but also portrayed characters experiencing a life far removed from my own.

I was very happy in Portugal.

We know about Portuguese football, we know the Portuguese culture.

It's part of my DNA as a Portuguese. Like many of my ancestors, there's that need to discover the world - exploration is in my blood.

There's a weird intellectual approach to filmmaking, where I pose a question to myself and use the film to try and answer it.

I like thinking about what could be out there, and I love the questions that sci-fi poses.

A lot of my songs are just posing questions, because I'm on a journey to find the answers myself.