Quotes About Exploration

I started off making backyard movies. I think it began in fifth grade - I'd get the friends together and we'd make little home movies. I always wanted to make movies but I didn't know how. It was always something really fun to do.

I like the idea of the states to go out and the states to take fifty laboratories of the best thoughts and create best ideas possible.

Just go out there against the best fighters in the world and see where I stand. That's what I want.

There's only so many things you can do with fights, so I'm always trying to shake it up and find something different, new, exciting and fun.

You've got to experiment to figure out what works.

I've been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky.

I'm still trying to figure out what the right line is between myself and the people I play. Sometimes I go too far one way or too far the other.

But what I was going to say was, I just figured I'm going to go boldly in the direction of my dreams, say it as Thoreau would say, and just see where it takes me.

I figured New York was the closest I'd get here in America to Scotland.

I love to watch human beings figuring out their limitations.

I think everyone goes through it in university, figuring out whether or not they're doing the right course. I guess I'm the same, but in music.

I liked the challenge of designing and building things, figuring out how something works and how to make it better or apply it in a different way.

We were really into what Cliff Martinez did with 'Drive;' we were into what Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross were doing with David Fincher. When I read about how they worked with David Fincher, they're composing hours and hours of music and then he's working and figuring it out.

I leave a lot open so I can fill it in later. If I don't have any ideas right away, I can fill it in later.

I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.

I love books that give you space to climb inside there. And you have to run to keep up in places, and you have to fill in a lot of blanks yourself. So it almost becomes your story.

My whole musical life has been an educational process, and I'm just furthering my education and filling in the blanks. There's stuff that I want to know that I don't know.

When we're away filming, Si's the one who's more likely to find a club and go dancing.

I love filming in New York. I love New York movies, too. I just like it when people can take New York and make it their own, because there are so many different New Yorks.

You try to get to know your character as best as you can before you start filming - what's written and not written.

When you agree to work with a filmmaker, it's important that you accept their world. It's an adventure. I like that. I throw myself into the director's arms, into their universe.

I'm always excited when I can discover new filmmakers.

As a filmmaker, I don't want to limit myself to one kind of movie.

As I continue to evolve as a filmmaker, I'm going to continue to do different stuff.