Quotes About Curiosity

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

There's a great deal of poetry in working out how things work, cutting bits of metal, trying to mend stuff.

In reading, we are both scientists and poets.

Science fiction is what we point to when we say it.

When I was a child, I saw my father diving to the deepest point in the ocean with the U.S. Navy.

I'm always curious how we sometimes have a different point of view when it comes to justice. And that's why people root for 'Dexter.'

I've always been interested in why do people behave in certain ways which are crazy from a normal point of view.

Everything I've ever done has been because of travel. Right from leaving Australia to where I am today - it's all been about exchanging different points of view. The most important lesson I've learnt is to look and listen to what's happening around you.

Boredom is a very self-conscious emotion by definition. Interest is not. So you can actually be completely absorbed in something and, at certain points in your development, not even realize that you're into it.

I tried a bunch of things, like Jiu Jitsu boxing classes. I don't know why, but I did.

I am a serial class taker. I take classes for anything and everything!

I was raised on the classics - Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, and others.

I was quite a clever child, I don't know what happened later on.

Someone once told me be interested, not interesting - that really clicked for me.

I'd behave savagely if I had access to Bjoerk's closet.

As a kid, it was always my dream to open a closet and end up fighting dragons or battling aliens.

Sometimes it doesn't hurt to talk around a little and see what lights people's eyes up and what makes them cloud over.

I was going to clubs in Manhattan when I was 14.

I'm not necessarily scanning for clues when I make documentaries.

I was making Molotov cocktails long before I knew the name for them.

I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.

What do I look for in a collaborator? Pretty much anyone who asks me to do something.

Any passion to collect has some meaning behind it.

If you're going to collect things because you think they have value, then don't collect. For me, you have to be obsessed, and there has to be something educational.