Unconstrained Exploration Quotes

Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.

Truth is a pathless land.

We wanted the freedom to be playful, to experiment and do what we felt like doing, but we were heavily affected by the success that the first record gave us.

A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline.

There was always a creative impulse in me but I never felt rooted to anything.

I'd like to make mistakes on my own dime and not have a herd of people tell me what I'm doing wrong. and I'm also still trying to find and develop my voice as a filmmaker, and I think that's easier to do on your own terms than trying to satisfy a bunch of people that are paying for the movie.

When you're young, you're not afraid of what comes next. You're excited by it.

You will never succeed in getting at the truth if you know, ahead of time, what the truth ought to be

Sometimes we get bored and want to shake up our format. It's a luxury we have on public access - no one cares about us. It literally doesn't matter if we fail, so sometimes we try to go really big and out of the box.

I'm a free spirit and that definitely comes from my upbringing, so it's definitely shaped me as an artist.

I don't start out making films with a certain goal in mind.

There is no well-trodden route to where I am, no formula to replicate.

In fiction, we are not bound by social convention, so the things that mystify and unsettle are allowed to rise to the surface.

I don't really know what the future of science is. Maybe we have come to the end of science; maybe science is a finite field. The inventions resulting from this finite field, however, are boundless.

I still do miss the freedom to play any kind of character I wanted to play.

I don't think there is a clear-cut avenue for what I do, and I am OK with that. I am just a lover of music.

The child who has no need to feign empirical knowledge about life can wonder and fantasise with great ease. The world is his oyster, or any other thing he wants it to be.

I've been on the road for fifteen years and I had no intent to stop.

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

Sometimes, I tell my wife I have to take a car trip and collect new memories - I like to drive around at absolute random for weeks on end through the United States and parts of Canada. Or else I feel trapped, like you feel when your life is completely planned for months in advance, and you think you're not getting enough oxygen.

It's interesting to be at once an insider and outsider. It's a way of learning how to find your way freely without the need of conforming or belonging.

It is very difficult to generalise. Everyone's adventure is original.

The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.

I'm never satisfied. I don't think about what has come before because I'm trying to find something different than I did before.