Quotes About Insight

As an actor, you can't just imitate someone. You have to get under her skin.

I don't really get things very... intuitively. I mean, I don't immediately understand things. The only way I really get it is by writing it down.

It's the job of the artist to take something that everybody thinks they know about, they've made a decision about, they will be immovable on, and to shine a light on it.

I'm impervious to charm. I can see through it.

I love getting into people's brains and understanding the creative impetus for something.

I would think: Stay close to the implants! They must know something because they keep getting asked backstage!

This idea that light plays an important part in our life is important to me.

Actually the writer is the most important part of the filmmaking process. That's why I never hesitate in giving credit to a writer which I don't think even Hollywood does.

I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity.

I say 'here's the thing' a lot, both to alert people that I'm about to say something important and to give myself a moment to figure out what that important thing might be, because my head is so often completely empty.

I hope I have important things to say.

I think to adequately manage a crisis, you have to see it. Because there's only so much somebody else can tell you about it, and they impose their own distortions on the description. You need to see it yourself.

It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.

I'm interested in the impact my movies have on people and how it affects them, and what they like and what they don't like - and what they take away from it. What leaves an impression, you know?

Sometimes I'll read an audition and I'll get a very strong first impression about who the person is, and I usually go with it.

I'm always under the impression that directors should act at some point or another.

What can a first impression tell us about anyone? Why, no more than a chord can tell us about Beethoven, or a brushstroke about Botticelli.

Rodrygo has an impressive lucidity.

I was having a really-early-onset midlife crisis, and then something clicked in an improv class, and I knew.

Trust your gut feeling about things, listen to what others are saying, and look at the results of your actions. Once you know the truth, you can set about taking action to improve. Everyone will be better for it.

I've improved as an actor, thanks to my wonderful directors. As a person, I've changed, too; I was 16 when I did 'Thullavatho Ilamai,' and I'm 32 now. With age, I've sobered down. I'm calmer; I can see things more clearly now.

Every time I've come away with Scotland I've learned and improved.

There is always room for improvement in experience and it can be achieved if one listens to the customers carefully.

In fact nothing is said that has not been said before.