Mia Wasikowska Quotes

But I've got more to learn, too. I don't feel like I'm done or I know it all.

The only reason you make a movie is not to make or set out to do a good or a bad movie, it's just to see what you learn for the next one.

I'm just smart enough to know what it is I don't know and try to learn as I go along and accept that you're going to make mistakes, and there are going to be things that are not going to be perfect.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Just because I make films doesn't mean I think they're great. I just make them and then when I'm done with them I'm just a filmgoer like I always am. They're all lessons. I'm still in film school, honestly. And this one is just a dry run for whatever the next one is.

I keep learning, listening, growing and experimenting.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That's why I keep making them.

Every time I do one I feel like I've never really quite learned anything. I always find that when I'm making a film, I find it a little bit like I'm doing it for the first time.

Oftentimes the shows that don't work help you get it right.

I always think that you finish one movie, you start a new one, and you think, 'OK. I did that last one. Now I've learned. I know how this works.' Then by the end of the movie, you think, 'No, I don't, really.'

Just understanding that if you're not growing up, you're just moving backwards, and I'm a person that I always want to grow and learn and not be the smartest person in the room, because when you're not the smartest person in the room, you're always learning things.

As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.

I can only put myself in the process and try to learn through the process. Sometimes it will go well and sometimes it won't.

That's the purpose of creative stuff: when you really love what you do, you have to know at some point, or points, you're not going to be good at it. That's just the process of learning. I can edit it and try to be as perfect as I can, but I'm still going to have my vulnerable spots and my weaknesses.

Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.

I still feel like I'm learning a lot and have a lot to learn and improve on.

Every day feels like just starting out because I still have so much more to learn.

Sometimes I'm wrong, sometimes not. But I'm an instinctual player.

One of these days, I'm going to stop learning through my errors.

I built a career out of knowing what I don't know.

You make mistakes that you want to learn from, that you don't want to happen again, and that's what I try to do.

There's always space for me to grow and I think that experimenting and making mistakes is gonna get me to this position where I'm trying to be is always changing.

With the first 'Toy Story,' we didn't know what the hell we were doing. We'd never made a movie before, so we went down a lot of blind alleys along the way. We went through seven different writers before we finally settled into our groove.

When I started building things, obviously I was pretty bad at it. You cant be good at it from the start, and I decided to just embrace that, roll with it, and turn it into something funny.

I can always see ways to improve what I've done. At the same time, knowing it's all an ongoing life's work allows me to be less precious about blind alleys, failed experiments, and misfires.