I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film.
Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.
The willingness to keep learning is I think the most important thing about trying to be good at anything. You never want to stop learning.
I sat staring staring staring - half lost learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat sound might not yet have been born.
That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together - for me to play bass and for him to play guitar.
Even though I was theatrically trained learning to develop a character was an awesome experience.
Perhaps to the uninformed it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning but the close alliance with each other of the different branches of science will explain the difficulty.
In this business if you take too long the landscape changes. So the opportunities that were there when I decided to take a break weren't there when I came back. It's like 'Wait a second - what happened here?' It was a real learning experience. I've paid my dues I will tell you that.
I remember in the circus learning that the clown was the prince the high prince. I always thought that the high prince was the lion or the magician but the clown is the most important.
I grew up listening to Jay-Z and I think the first time I really became obsessed with learning and thinking about lyrics was when I started listening to rap I was 11 12 and started becoming aware of music beyond the familiar.
I think I've spent so much time playing characters that are so far away from me and learning how to technically build and how to technically put something on top of you.
It's hard to be perfect It really is. I keep learning things after I've already bungled it.
The Company of Wolves is about how society teaches young women to look at themselves and what to be afraid of. It's about a girl learning that the world of sensuality and the unknown is not to be feared that it's worth getting your teeth into.
Before it was just about making the films - and now it's releasing them. Which is a steep learning curve.
Also the more you're not focused on showbiz and instead focused on life learning about other people and keeping your eyes open and trying to be aware of the world.
Isn't one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that it's basically impossible to use text to show that.
Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have.
We're all like children. We may think we grow up but to me being grown up is death stopping thinking trying to find out things going on learning.
That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don't understand.
The failures and successes are necessary for learning.
Learning about the way people process information and their emotions is hugely helpful to my work.
The best part of making the movies... learning from the pros themselves.
A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.