Quotes About Exploration

With filmmaking in general, I have never absorbed the traditional knowledge of film history or filmmaking. It has always been just pick up the camera and go figure it out.

In the world of independent filmmaking, you're never quite sure what's happening when and where.

A big part of my filmmaking is that I can go somewhere new and, visually, be excited by it.

If you're involved in filmmaking, you want to challenge yourself.

I'm not trying to prove myself a great filmmaker. I don't know much about filmmaking anyway. I'm trying my hand at it to see if I'm any good.

Filmmaking is like any kind of art form. You have to try to figure it out, and you're going to do that by trying.

When it comes to filmmaking - India or abroad, there are two approaches. First, when the director knows what he's making. Second, where he has an idea and explores that while making the film.

The best films come about through experimentation.

I've done more than 100 films, which is a sizeable chunk of life in cinema, so if something can startle me, then I think we can say we're looking at something fairly new.

I was very restless, but finally I found my way.

Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Find out what you're capable of.

I'm very open to dating and finding a guy.

Sometimes, you find the play; sometimes, the play finds you.

Books are a finer world within the world.

When I was growing up as a child, a magazine, to me, was like a finger beckoning me to the future.

I've always dipped my finger in so many things.

I like to tinkle at my piano when I'm working out a new song - I just put my fingers down and see what comes out.

You never finish learning.

When I finish a movie, I get in my camper and drive around the country.

With beauty, I think one never finishes it. I'm always exploring. I like the concept of change.

It was strange to go off the path that everyone takes and not finish college, but it's been a great adventure.

I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens.

I find going back through things sometimes exhilarating because I find things I didn't know I had, and sometimes it's very off putting because there are things I never quite finished, and there's nothing at all to do about it now.

After 'Rings,' I had two feelings: One, I immediately didn't want to work on anything on a large scale. I wanted to work on something really small after I was finished filming the first three. But the other thing was that I had a continuing interest in working on things that were really different.