Christoph Waltz Quotes

I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.

You didn't grow up driving...you figured it out.

I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.

I could drive from the age of nine. My dad had his car pitch at home, and we used to drive the cars around the land, take them up to the tap, wash them, and reverse them back.

You never learn anything in school. Think about how many car accidents happen every day. Driver’s ed? What’s up? I still haven’t been to driver’s ed because if everybody I know has been in an accident, I can’t see how driver’s ed is really helping them out.

There are a lot of drivers who can carry a car. It doesn't happen very often very successfully. I think it takes a certain amount of sensible bravery. It's no good to be brave and just keep crashing.

My job is to get into the car and drive as fast and as well as possible.

I had a lot of learning on my feet.

I am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.

A good driver can make up for bad equipment way more than a good car could make up for a bad driver.

I've been naturally quick at learning things, and I learn by doing things, so if I sit beside someone who is actively doing something, I look at how they do it and absorb the way in which they do something and find my own comfortable way of reimagining that, or using certain techniques in my own way.

I was mostly self-taught on guitar and that had its benefits. It's a great thing to work through problems on your own.

Repeating my mechanics was difficult. I was always trying to do something different to make it click.

You take the job, you learn from it, and you move on.

If I make a mistake, I just shrug it off and carry on.

You have to let the car do the job and try to trust it, try to understand what you are doing, try to be smooth, and try to be incredibly smart to set the car up, because that is the most important part.

One of the things I learned was that I really enjoyed stunt-car driving.

I think the best learning is done with active manipulation. And we need to be able to work with our hands; it's not just about using our brains.

Whether I'm riding a horse or driving a car, I'm feeling them, judging what they're doing, trying to work out what I can take them up to.

As we grow, we learn to handle situations differently than we normally would.

Nobody is born with a steering wheel or a gear shift in his hand. It's something you choose to do or you don't.

You can handle just about anything that comes at you out on the road with a believable grin, common sense and whiskey.

So, if you haven't picked up some tips during an apprenticeship like that, you shouldn't be directing. It doesn't mean you can do it, but it loads you up with information.

The trouble with school is they give you the answer, then they give you the exam. That's not life.

I can drive anything on wheels... I can drive anything, actually.