Quotes About Insight

I like discovering stories where I'm laughing and I'm learning. It's like, 'How was I never taught that in school?'

Discovering Samuel Beckett in college was a big deal for me. I realized you could be very funny and very dark at the same time.

I am discovering myself as a director all the time.

The experience of reading is very interesting because you put yourself in the character's shoes and everything they're discovering, you marry the experience.

The different bodies of my work end themselves when there's no more discovery to be had.

Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one.

In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing.

This is the kind of discovery that resonates.

Every character, for me, is a new discovery.

Boy, when you come to study something, and you come to understand it - you know, even if it's just a little discovery that you make, and you come to understand it on your own, it feels it's like the greatest high. It's like you just have found some incredibly secretive thing about nature.

When you're kept out of the adult world, it's a blessing in disguise.

I definitely dish advice out more than I get it.

It would be disingenuous to say I don't have some sensitivity to the seamy side of issues.

I dislike the word 'self-help.' Self-awareness, yes, but not self-help.

I'm a writer, so I like dissecting things.

You can't see all of a place until you look at it from a distance.

I'm not sure I can write about America for the same reason I'm not sure I can write about adults - I have no critical distance on either place.

I have bad vision, but it's not distorted. It's low power!

I learned at 50 that there are things that are not my department. Distribution is one of those things.

Our personal intelligence is everlasting and divine.

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

There is no compression algorithm for experience.

It's always a learning experience every time I'm on set.

I think everything you do in life is a learning experience.