Quotes About Observation

Katherine Heigl was a movie star. I thought she was going to be one, and it was fun to watch this young actress getting better every day.

Most of us do not consciously look at movies.

Dude, I didn't say Jude Law can't act. I didn't say Jude Law was in bad movies. I just said he's in every movie.

I've been in enough movies to know that when you're on the set and you start shooting, you're looking at playback and you get a sense of what it's going to be like.

I was the kind of girl who'd peep through her bedroom keyhole to check if her dolls were moving.

Your mind is just constantly moving, thinking of different scenarios, not only on your team but their team too, trying to figure out things they are doing.

Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer.

The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.

To me, running is almost like multitasking. You get to people-watch or tour a city that you've never been in while exercising.

I learnt basic cookery by watching my mum.

My earliest memory is of sitting at Mum's dance school, watching her teach a ballet class.

I think it was my mum and dad who taught me how to love and how to think a relationship works, and I think it was by watching them.

It was normal to us, like having a camera or seeing Mum and Dad play live - what you grow up with is normal to you. When you get a bit older and go to school, and see what other peoples families are like, then you start comparing it to your life.

I wouldn't mind working in restaurants again because you build up a relationship with the customers. I'm really inspired by the mundane - it's often the most ordinary-looking people who have the best stories - and you can watch diners and study their idiosyncrasies without them being aware of it.

Shouldn't a great museum foster serious seeing before all else?

Most of my read on America is through looking through the front windshield of a bus and hanging out with country music fans backstage.

I worked at CNN for almost 26 years. I worked in Mutual Radio for 20 years. I've been in the business 57 years. I have never seen a bias off the air or on.

Whenever my friend says something cool, and especially if my team says something, like a cool line in English, I'll write it down, and maybe I'll rephrase or use in a different way or something.

I only believe in what I see and hear with my own eyes and ears.

I spend most of my time looking at game film.

My time in documentaries was very educating, in terms of life experience as well as the filmmaking side of it.

I look at my time on this earth as social anthropology, at home and in work life.

What goes down on film is different to what you see with the naked eye.

I often keep my eyes open for bodies. I do. Ever since I was a kid. I think I read too many 'Nancy Drew' books.