Quotes About Insight

If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.

I love figuring people out.

You always have to figure out what the director is good at before you work with them; then you can fill in if need be.

With what dope I got I think it fills me in pretty well.

I don't know anything about the film industry. I thought I knew films, but apparently, I don't know films or people!

I always try and learn as much as I can from different departments on a film set.

I used to not listen that much, but I've really learnt to listen to other people and to really listen to what they're saying. I've found, especially being on a film set, people have so many different stories; if you just listen, you can pick up so much stuff. I try to listen as much as I can.

Life experiences cannot be learnt on the film set or in front of the camera.

I learn from everybody on a film set.

You try to get to know your character as best as you can before you start filming - what's written and not written.

You can tell so much about somebody by the films they make, and it's only while I approach this do I now realize how much of the filmmaker you can see in their films.

Every filmmaker wants to get their audience talking.

People don't know what filmmaking is even after they have made ten films.

I never watch the dailies. What I usually do is have a look at the rough or final cut, and I just get something from the story. Sometimes I start composing even before the director has shot anything. The dailies don't help me at all.

First hand on 'Go Goa Gone' I learnt how to write on final drafts, how the process works.

Learning is finding out what you already know.

I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.

Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.

There are a lot of laughs in this movie, but it's not just about the laughs. It's really about the story, about a guy who finds his soul and realizes what's truly important.

In fine, nothing is said now that has not been said before.

Criticism is okay from people who know the finer points of cinema.

The people I always loved listening to had a little bit of dirt under their fingernails because they had done some living and had these stories to talk about.

I learn all these things about the record talking about it after it's finished.

I did learn a lot from 'Things We Lost in the Fire,' but I've learned different things from different films.