Quotes About Exploration

What we usually find is that when people think they have a new idea or approach something for the first time, it is actually a recurrence of a line of thinking explored in the past.

I tend to plan as I write. And I want to leave myself open and the character open to keep on going until it seems to be the time to stop.

We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls.

I think that's what I love about writing, is the ability to try to, in a sense, take a vacation from yourself and try to enter the sensibility of another time, another character, another place.

Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it.

I definitely try to broaden the scope of music. I don't know if it's pop or classical or what, but I'm religiously challenging myself all the time, for better or for worse.

What if I travel so far away in my dreams that I can't get back in time to wake up?

I love the idea of creative collaboration. I love the idea of exploring marriages, particularly ones that are in process for a long time.

We live in a fun time with so many ways to express yourself, you would be crazy to be a comedian and not check them all out.

Commit yourself to taking enough risks that you will fail some of the time. If you're not failing, we're not doing something sufficiently difficult or creative.

I just would like to spend more time in New York City.

In high school I would mess with my hair and makeup all the time.

What exactly did people do when they had all the time in the world and could do whatever they liked?

If you eat the same cereal every day it's gonna get old. And if I had thought about snowboarding every day, I would have quit a long time ago.

Every time you make a movie it's an adventure.

Much of my time is taken up by reading, researching and trying out ideas.

Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing.

I'd read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell's stuff for a long time.

One of the great joys of my job is that you spend a huge amount of time investigating different areas of literature.

My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.

It had long been an ambition to find the line of force that might lead to the Holy Land in the time of Christ.

The TV show. Any time you're playing, this is the gift, you get to play someone else. You get to be someone who you're not.

It's cool to challenge myself to learn new things as opposed to going to play basketball in the park for millionth time.

These rovers are living on borrowed time. We're so past warranty on them. You try to push them hard every day because we're living day to day.