Viggo Mortensen Quotes

For me, making music is a continuous learning experience, and I think that it feeds itself.

I think everything that you do, you're learning. I mean, every movie that you make is like a film school; that's one of the things that I enjoy about filmmaking.

I was going to go and do what I should do as a filmmaker and make slightly larger films each time, learn my craft, make mistakes and solve them.

All the filmmakers I've worked with have taken my desire to educate myself very seriously.

Hits and flops will come and go. But what stays with you is the experience you had while shooting a film. I am happy learning something new each time.

Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.

I want to keep working with the best, keep going and be a better actor each time I go and dive into something.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

It's always a learning experience every time I'm on set.

I've been to the studio several times, and it's not that I'm not happy with what I've got, but each time I come away, I feel that I've learned something that I want to work on.

I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student.

All the time, as an actor, you want to be asking what's next and where things are going. If you're not asking those questions, you're not growing.

Each time you do a film you gain a lot of experience and build a visual resume where people get to know who you are.

I really took filmmaking very seriously... It was an honor and then a crutch also, because at a young age, I was like, I guess I'm a serious filmmaker. I never set out to be a serious filmmaker. I just set out to make movies.

I'm still working on my career, still trying to learn from other artistes and develop my skills and my style.

The best part of making the movies... learning from the pros themselves.

It's taken me 15 years to step behind a camera and make something everyone agrees looks like a movie.

I believe that I improve with every book I write - most writers will probably tell you the same thing. I'm still learning my craft and will be until the day I drop dead at my computer. In my opinion, art isn't something that can be perfected. There's always room for improvement.

Regardless of any experiences in the past, for me it really is important to be engrossed in as much of the creative process as I possibly can. I was surprised with how much the eight years I spent on 'Castle' actually serviced that. I ended up, in a way, having a free education on that show.

When I made my first film, it was just an adventure. But after my first movie, I guess I got more of a feeling of what was happening around me.

The actor's journey to learn should never stop.

Every film I've done, I've tried to pick ones where I can learn.

I think, for me, I'm always more interested in the process of making the movie than the movie itself

I wrote and directed and acted in it and produced it, every job I have since that - and Star Wars included - I look at it completely different now. Now that I've seen how it gets made, I can appreciate the jobs that people are doing, and it's also become a different learning experience for me to work on things because I'm watching pros at the top of their field do their jobs and just picking up on their tricks and all of their expertise and stashing them away in my brain.

Every time you make a movie it's a new and different experience. You learn very little from the past. So, I'm a little bit better than I was when I first started.