Intense Curiosity Quotes

When I was 10 years old, that nuclear spark hit me. Whatever it may be, I really don't know what it was about nuclear science, but whatever it was that triggered that interest, it stuck. I went after that one with a passion.

I'm kind of ADD in that sense where if I start liking something, I'll just learn it to the absolute max.

When I make a film, I never stop uncovering mysteries, making discoveries. When I'm writing, filming, editing, even doing promotional work, I discover new things about the film, about myself, and about others. That is what I'm subconsciously looking for when shooting a film: to glimpse the enigmas of life, even if I don't resolve them, but at least to uncover them. Cinema is curiosity in the most intense meaning of the word.

I always tell aspiring documentary filmmakers, 'You have to go into it because you love it; if you go into it for the money, you're an idiot.' The number one prerequisite is you have to be intensely curious. If you love learning and trying to make people figure out what makes people tick, it's the best job in the world.

If you become so intensely curious that without knowing you cannot live, that is called seeking.

Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.

Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us a model of how we should always read.

Few people take an interest in Iceland, but in those few the interest is passionate.

There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.

I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must.

I want to know why I read as a child with such a frantic appetite, why I sucked the words off the page with such an edge of desperation.

Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer.

Love is only a feeling of curiousity more or less intense, grafted upon the inclination placed in us by nature that the species may be preserved.