Quotes About Insight

I do know that I have always been one of life's observers, always standing slightly on the outside, watching.

Being on the 'Alex Cross' set, and watching and learning about and paying attention to everything that was going on there, I realized, 'Here is a moment for me to learn.'

As an actor, you pay attention very closely to everything that happens to you, and you're constantly watching others as well, trying to just find out where everything comes from.

I've always been a scientist in terms of watching basketball. I like to dissect it all.

When you're watching from the bench, you can pick up on everything - where guys like to shoot the ball from, how teams defend the pick-and-roll, which big men are good at hedging the screen and so on.

I kind of grew up watching R-rated movies and more adult content because that's where all the best performances are.

Keeping one's eyes open, listening, watching, being quiet, adopting some of the techniques of the psychoanalyst in talking to people, will bring you that surface from which something more comes.

There are so many ways to do research - even watching old Ealing comedies, watching people getting on and off buses in London, looking at household interiors.

There is something powerful about sitting courtside and watching closely the interactions of players with their teammates, with their opponents, with their coaching staff.

I definitely watch the older guys. I'm always watching; that's how I learn.

Ninety percent of my ideas come to me either when I'm reading or watching a show.

I've always felt that kids are a lot smarter than we've given them credit for, but we've never given them a chance to figure things out as they're watching television.

I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

I understand the rules of Superman - not necessarily better than anyone else - but better than a normal filmmaker would. After doing 'Watchmen' and digging that deep into the why of superheroes, when Superman is presented to you, I felt like I was in a unique position to say 'I get this guy. I know what this is.'

His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.

I grew up in a house with no running water, 16 miles from the closest place that had a post office. I had a very parochial view of the world.

Sometimes you read things that people don't even notice in a performance, that you just are moved by or understand that this actor is really living his or her life on the screen. The first time I realized that was when I watched Brando in 'On the Waterfront.'

At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles of equal size, or quanta, and that light is an electromagnetic wave motion.

As a surfer, I think of places like a wave: you see one thing on the surface. But you always know there's something different going on underneath.

I taught myself to tune in to another person's wavelength, figure out what they were looking for, and try to project that thing back at them.

I don't like sensationalizing events. Instead of making waves, I want to make everything settle, so we can see to the bottom of things.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.