Chiwetel Ejiofor Quotes

The interesting thing is that when you start out, people have no judgment and they see you young and fresh as a filmmaker - and because you have no experience yet, you're much more naive and think anything is possible.

I think there's actually a benefit to working with teen actors: they've got such boundless energy, and everybody is willing to try different things.

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

That's the thing, when you play younger characters they're always less casual. You're hungrier or more naive. Those things wane in time.

When you have an older group of players, they play on automatic pilot a lot of the time, but with youngsters, you have more intuition.

Experience hobbles progress and leads to abandonment of difficult problems; it encourages the initiated to walk on the shady side of the street in the direction of experiences that have been pleasant. Youth without experience attacks the unsolved problems which maturer age with experience avoids, and from the labors of youth comes progress. Youth has dreams and visions, and will not be denied.

youth has everything - everything but experience and tolerance.

To me, everything is always new. People involved in my personal life make fun of me a lot for not being jaded.

I have this theory that your first film is always your best film in some way. I always try to get back to that moment when you're not relying on things you've done before.

When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh.

When I was young, I was everywhere.

When I was maybe like, under 10 years old, I was kind of like a maniac.

Adult characters are all the things they've encountered over time. But kids haven't accumulated all the life experience, all the regrets. They tend to be more in the moment, more willing to play, to be joyful.

When I went into film, it never occurred to me that I wouldn't be able to do whatever I wanted to do. Maybe that was a good thing in the beginning. I had blinders on, and I charged forward.

Innocence can be more powerful than experience.

Anjelica Huston and Kelly MacDonald are both really special. Anjelica has such a fresh point of view about acting and doesn't seem jaded at all. She seems more like a student and yet she is veteran actor who really brings it.

I was so naive when I began acting, professionally.

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.

As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.

I have definitely been curious and involved in the process; even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the camera was, what story it was telling. And as my experience grew, I wanted to know even more.

I didn't have a bad experience on 'Gossip Girl,' by any means, but it was during a time in my life where I was looking at acting in not a very serious way. Which is no insult to 'Gossip Girl,' but that was a time in my life when I really didn't know if I wanted to act when I got out of school. It was like, 'OK, I got this part. I'll go do this.'

With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater.

To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

If you love acting and you've ever experienced theater, then you know that in a movie it's almost impossible to live out that experience, unless you're a Pacino or a De Niro or somebody who gets to pick their parts.

We were doing things with a hundred per cent feeling. It wasn't programmed. It wasn't asked for. It wasn't structured. It was just there. It was very raw. I don't think the industry would allow that to happen again.