Margaret Qualley Quotes

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.

Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go.

And as I've gotten deeper into the process of making films and television and such, I think I have more trust in the fact that you really never know what you're going to find after the twenty-fifth take.

Every film you work on is different, and that's part of what it's like for anybody who works on a film, is to learn how to work with others. Learn from top to bottom. Actors have to learn how to work with the director and the director has to learn how to work with actors, and that's not just those two departments.

Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing. That's what scientists do every day.

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

I try stuff. I synthesize what's of value with some of the other things I have at my disposal.

You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time.

The first scene I ever shot for 'Louie Bluie,' on that first day, I had never seen the camera before. I didn't know where to put it. I just knew what was strong about these guys and what I wanted to capture, so I tried to work backward from there and figure it out. Trial and error. Hopefully I got a little bit better at it.

Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem.

I think what's so great about making your first feature film is that you're so naive in some ways; you don't know what to expect, and you don't question things as much because you're just trying to figure it out as you go.

You've got to experiment to figure out what works.

I'm still experimenting.

What I learned with tech companies is I gotta give people room to experiment, and also what might later on be a mistake.

One of the things that is particularly precious about working at Apple is that many of us on the design team have worked together for 15-plus years, and there's a wonderful thing about learning as a group. A fundamental part of that is making mistakes together.

Everything is an experiment.

I realised years ago that no one really knows what they're doing and you kind of just learn by observing.

All the time I had my success, I didn't know what I was doing. I struggled and struggled and hacked things out without any insight as to why.

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.

I think the philosophy will continue to be what it always was; which was, let's keep throwing a bunch of things at the wall, and see what sticks.

You try a lot of things and you don't know what the hell you're doing. If you're actually inventing something you shouldn't know what you're doing.

All great discoveries...are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents.

There is no map, and charting a path ahead will not be easy. We will need to invent, which means we will need to experiment.

As a writer, you don't know what the hell you're doing. You're just doing it. You hope it works out well.