Quotes About Observation

Children are fearless and honest, they are the best people to watch. There's no falseness.

When you're a writer, everything that interests you feeds into your work.

A lot of stand-up is talking about your perspective in the world and your experiences in life. And I think it takes any comedian a while to find out what their thing is, or what they feel good doing on stage.

But the main things about a man are his eyes and his feet. He should be able to see the world and go after it.

Most people watch a game because they're excited about it; I'll sit there and watch lacrosse championships to try to find a female who could be a bobsledder.

When I walk into a new organization and I don't know the industry or the people, which has always been the case, I do a few things. One is I think about the business from the outside in.

I watch the game pretty closely and think of a few things that I'd do perhaps differently to what's going on and throw up ideas here and there as well.

You learn a lot, writing fiction.

I'm always watching every featherweight that fights in the UFC because we can eventually fight in the future.

I've done figure drawing classes or whatever.

I've never really figured out why the media covers the media, you know?

You can do all the film school you want in classrooms, but if you are on the set, you are going to learn so much more because you are really in the middle of doing it.

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

I learn from everybody on a film set.

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.

You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.

If you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.

You can't do a fine thing without having seen fine examples.

Whenever I've done jobs, whether it's an acting job or writing job, there's an aspect of it that feels like you help build your piece of it, and then you watch as someone takes it, and they finish building it.

Every one tells me that I'm a pretty fast eater. I'll sit down to a dinner, and I'll finish in two minutes while everyone else will take 30 minutes.

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

First of all - I only believe what I see.

I was the first one on the team, and I got to watch everybody come in.

Just going along with this, what I did, or what I do is I imagine not being myself seeing it, but imagine somebody else who's seeing it for the first time.