Quotes About Insight

To a clear eye the smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be seen.

I was really lucky that, through my 20s, I got to work with some amazing people, and I tried to sit back and watch and learn.

I particularly like to travel for work because you see a completely different side of the country you're visiting.

I like working intensely, then going away and thinking about it, working out why it didn't work and then coming back to it. It makes the work richer, I think.

I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.

I know a lot about writing, but I don't know much about how other industries work. I've tried to use my naivety to my advantage.

Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.

I do like that idea that music can work on two levels, and you only pick up on the second one after a few listens.

To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.

Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books.

You learn a lot about a person when you work together.

When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.

I don't call myself an expert because I've played experts. I know a little bit about very little. But it's very hard to not be drawn into saying something, especially if it has to do with the work.

Of course, when you work on a character, you try to understand her. You feel that everything she does has a reason.

Except for our higher order of minds we are like the little moles under the earth carrying out blindly the work of digging, thinking our own dark passage-ways constitute all there is to the world.

Comedy is this weird thing. You have no idea why certain things work and other things don't work.

Once biographical information contaminates your consciousness, it's impossible to erase it and look at someone's work the same way again.

As an actor I suppose you're constantly observing. I don't sit in restaurants making notes, I don't live my life in order to then feed it into my work.

A body of work may be reviled - mostly by those who have no knowledge of its workings - and yet still carry elements of what can only be considered eternal truths.

At the beginning it wasn't to do with the work, it was more the experience.

Maybe it takes forty years of your life to understand how the world seems to work.

The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.

There's a lot of young guys coming along, but I'd like to say to the various financiers, don't forget the senior guys. The senior guys and gals are there, willing to do their best work for you.

Directing is such a crucial part of the writing process; you start directing and you see what does not work. "Oh, God, what was I thinking?" and then you can rearrange it.