Quotes About Observation

As an actor, all you have is what you know and what you see in other people. The more you know, and the more you've experienced, the more you're able to communicate to other people.

A scientist... must accept the results of experiment, and nothing but the results of experiment.

If you do an experiment and it gives you what you did not expect, it is a discovery.

It's about story; it is a social experiment, and people take that into account when they're watching 'Big Brother.'

Experimentation is an active science.

I'm not a big comedy show-watcher, but I love Ricky Gervais' stuff and Sacha Baron Cohen's things. But I'm not an expert on them. I've seen them once.

I've just always liked watching people dance. I can't explain it. It used to just make me laugh.

Science explains what nature is doing; money often explains what we're doing.

The excitement lies in the exploration of the world around us.

The whole business of being an actor is to explore, from research to shooting to why you do it. You're trying to see why people do what they do and how it feels to do what they do.

Great telescopes like the Kecks allow us to explore the River of Time back toward its source.

Writing gives me the license to go, explore, and learn about the world.

Science is for anyone who wants to explore their world and understand things.

The more I have written, the less it has been about exploring myself, and the more it has been about exploring the world around me.

There's always something happening in pretty much every moment of every scene of everything I've ever worked on in longform that's not being expressed or acknowledged.

Sometimes you're watching a great film actor, and if you stand 10 feet away from them, you're like, 'God, they're terrible. They're not doing anything.' And then you see the close-up, and it's so nuanced, and so much expression is happening. They were acting for that camera and for no one else.

To some extent, I draw on what I see around me; in other places, I imagine what I write.

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

I have a jaundiced eye but a young mind.

I have an eye for detail.

I keep an eye on politics, although I wouldn't say I'm political.

Well we took it apart scene by scene. We examined every sentence, every full stop, every comma. He has a most wonderful eye for detail, Roman, and you know, he's a very good artist.

Bergman has a very special eye for people. His background taught him to listen and to feel.