Capturing Experiences Quotes

I think it can be really powerful, and one of the reasons I love making films is I do feel they can reach beyond the statistics and the numbers and the complexities of a particular issue and really highlight the humanity in a way that an article or newspaper story might not be able to do.

I've subsequently become conscious of MAKING MEMORIES. Which makes me sound like a scrapbooker.

In ways I don't entirely have the words for, an experience, thought or a lesson isn't real for me until I've written down.

With talent so stacked on a project like 'Proximity' and so many intense locations explored, it's almost impossible to showcase every highlight in the confines of one film.

Music is only special when it's coming from a genuine place - it's just energy trapped in a bottle.

The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.

To me some of the greatest writing is when somebody puts something in words that you felt and experienced and you go, that's it.

I have to say, creating memories is so important to me that I did a book about creating memories for your family.

Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.

You write about experiences partly to understand what they mean, partly not to lose them to time. To oblivion. But there's always the danger of the opposite happening. Losing the memory of the experience itself to the memory of writing about it.

I love photography, I love food, and I love traveling, and to put those three things together would just be the ultimate dream.

You get into moods - like, if somebody does something to you, then you're angry for maybe 30 seconds, or maybe 30 years. I was always interested in capturing those awful, unflattering things that everybody goes through - those hot moments, captured in ice.

I like to record. It's very intense.