Quotes About Insight

I think actors do make really, really wonderful directors.

You work with great directors and terrible directors, and so you learn; you take what you think will work for you.

I guess once you've been acting for a long time, you glean the great bits of good directors and the bad bits from other directors, and you know the way that you would like to be directed.

There's a lot of directors who were actors, so they have the sensibility of an actor, which sometimes helps.

As a director, you never get to watch other directors work, and you also don't get to collaborate with other directors that much.

My acting experience has been a benefit. What I learned from directors is how to listen to and talk with actors. I know how they think and what they need.

It's important to see how people see your work and how they feel about it. I know a lot of directors who are like, 'I never read reviews,' and I'm like, 'Yeah I can tell.'

Most companies that are successful listen to people and see what they want and they make that. So when I used to make songs, I'd make mixtapes. The public would tell me what they like and then I would make songs based on what they like. That's how I knew 'Ridin' Dirty' was going to be big - they told me they liked this kind of music.

The dirty little secret of the intelligence world is that much of what you really need to know isn't exactly a secret anyway.

So okay, the world through my eyes, what is that world? Well, I see a lot of dirty stuff, and I see a lot of dumb stuff.

From the first time I saw them, I knew they weren't just five dirty little boys from Liverpool without an education.

And I seemed to discern a power and meaning in the old, which the more impassioned would not allow.

I think leadership is not something you learn; it's something you discover.

I don't set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it's about.

When you get over the anxiety, you discover you should have been mad a long time ago.

I write linearly without knowing the full story. I discover it as I write it.

I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.

Usually, I don't feel comfortable with a character until I've played him before an audience for several performances. It is not until after three months of performing that I learn to discover what I call 'all the nooks and crannies' of the person.

I discover a lot of things on my own.

Someone recommended that I read the Bible, and it was then I discovered that I knew nothing about it.

Most discoveries even today are a combination of serendipity and of searching.

Audiences like making discoveries.

I like my mind being stimulated. I like discovering new concepts.

Sometimes ideas feel like they were already there, and that you're just discovering them.