Quotes About Exploration

I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed.

I've never lived anywhere else in my life, I have a massive love-hate relationship with this city. I grew up in the western suburbs in the '80s and for everything we had to go to south Bombay - so you lived the whole city, in a sense.

Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.

I was always looking ahead. I used to do all kinds of things for entertainment. When I was young, we had no radio, no TV. We were 30 miles from the public library, out in the sticks in Western Kansas, and so I'd do arithmetic exercises.

I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.

I think over the course of 14 films, I'm returning to a place that I know to tell a story... the same way Spielberg returned to fantasy, Lucas returned to the 'Star Wars' saga, or John Ford returned to the western.

I've been informed by both sides, jazz, western music, Asian music, African music, all sides, because I've been interested in the sound of the universe, and that sound is without limit.

I just like being on my own on trains, traveling. I spent all my pocket money travelling the London Underground and Southern Railway, what used to be the Western region, and in Europe as much as I could afford it. My parents used to think I was going places, but I wasn't, I was just travelling the trains.

The one thing I miss is hitchhiking. Now there's no more of that. When's the last time you saw a hitchhiker? It's not that I consider it a great sport, but it was my way of seeing the country. The open road, especially in the western United States, is still very pristine, but everything else around it has changed.

I've done a little bit of everything now, but I would like to do a Western because I've never done that.

Most people are living lives of sort of survival. And constantly posing an existential crisis, either through fantasy or oblivion, really has been pretty much explored in rock and roll. At least in the western version of rock n' roll.

I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so much that I still want to do.

I grew up in western Oregon, just outside Eugene, on 27 wooded acres that served as my playground.

At the age of 14, I ran away from home for four days and hitchhiked around western Pennsylvania and southern Ohio.

I'd love to do a Western.

It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.

Of course, as a kid, I had no idea what was practical: I wanted to be a paleontologist, then an astronaut.

We didn't have practical model rockets in the '50s. The ones we made were very dangerous and the kids that played with them didn't have all their fingers, and sometimes were blind in one eye.

The practical case for manned spacef light gets ever-weaker with each advance in robots and miniaturisation - indeed, as a scientist or practical man, I see little purpose in sending people into space at all. But as a human being, I'm an enthusiast for manned missions.

Administrators and scientists are excited by buckyballs for their own sake, and if they turn out to have practical applications, so much the better.

Limitations, be they practical or arbitrary, force artists to dig more deeply instead of settling for easy answers.

The human imagination can connect to practically anything.

I see my practice as picture making. Whatever is available, I use.

I used to practice Wicca.