Jessica Stockholder Quotes

I never think that a film should answer questions for you. I think it should make you ask a lot of questions.

I really like questions. I like people who write scripts because they're asking questions, not because they're giving answers. It's something that I look for.

I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don't find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the edges.

I'm a curious person. I like to ask questions.

For me, there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I don't look for an answer because I don't think there is one. I'm very glad to be the bearer of a question.

The number of ways you can live in one lifetime is limitless. So why limit yourself? The sky is NOT the limit. Beyond the universe is.

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.

Asking questions is what brains were born to do, at least when we were young children. For young children, quite literally, seeking explanations is as deeply rooted a drive as seeking food or water.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

I like to write about questions that interest me, not the conclusions I've come to.

I am really more interested in questions than in giving answers.

I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered, we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell.

I don't have the answers. But I am asking the questions, and that's the fun part. I'm like the kid in class with his hand up, going, 'Um...' I think that's a powerful place to create from.

Contrary to popular belief, the outskirts are not where the world ends - they are precisely where it begins to unfurl.

A question is a pursuit, an invitation to envision and explore a series of possibilities, to struggle and empathize and doubt and believe. The question moves, whereas our sense of what an answer is can often be static, a stopping point.

Curiosity is the process of asking questions, genuine questions, that are not leading to an ask for something in return.

There are no sure answers, only better questions.

A lot of our creative flow comes from a place of curiosity and exploration. It often feels like we're excavating and asking questions and not just giving answers but really just exploring.

We've always been a band that questions things.

If you don't know something, just go and ask.

I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything...

Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. (2) If you don't like the answer, you shouldn't have asked the question.

It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.