Yann Martel Quotes

For me, making music is a continuous learning experience, and I think that it feeds itself.

In any of the arts, you never stop learning.

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.

I just would like to be challenged. I want to push myself to the limit, and constantly challenge myself and grow as an artist. That's where I want to go. Explore different things, different characters, in film, and just everything!

Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.

I think everything that you do, you're learning. I mean, every movie that you make is like a film school; that's one of the things that I enjoy about filmmaking.

I learn everything with my every film. If we stop learning, we would stop growing as an actor.

I got to focus on my performance - learning how to perform is something I've been working on both personally and professionally.

Learning is the most important thing, no mater how you do it, or where you do it, or who you do it with.

I want to keep - this seems so corny - I want to keep growing as an artist.

I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

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

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

Hopefully with each thing that you do you're learning something, you're growing, and you're pushing yourself a little harder in some way or another. So I think you'd be in real trouble if each new thing that you create didn't feel like 'Oh, wow. I feel like I'm doing something a little different this time.'

I had a pretty steep learning curve in film - as I'm still learning.

Third, for people who aren't doing it already, take classes - they're worthwhile. Workshops or classes - a workshop is where you do actually get feedback on your work, not just something where you go and sit for a day.

Knowledge is exploding, so you need to commit yourself to a plan for lifelong learning.

I've always felt that work - learning from people who know more than I know - is what keeps you going.

I've been to the studio several times, and it's not that I'm not happy with what I've got, but each time I come away, I feel that I've learned something that I want to work on.

Every day you learn something new.

I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.

I learn from every movie I do because on every movie I have a different experience.

There's a bunch of stuff I want to learn. Instead of waiting around on set all day, I'd rather be learning something cool.

When you do your art, and you may think people don't recognize it or appreciate it, you actually go and try to get better.