Sebastian Lelio Quotes

I would love to do a western. I would love to play an explorer. That is always something that has really captured my imagination since I was a kid, like James Cook or Magellan or Earnest Shackleton.

I'm a storyteller; that's what exploration really is all about. Going to places where others haven't been and returning to tell a story they haven't heard before.

When you grow up by the sea, you spend a good deal of time looking at the horizon. You wonder what on Earth the waves might bring - and where the sea might deposit you - until one day you know you have lived between two places, the scene of arrival and the point of departure.

I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.

There was part of me that wanted to see the world and travel to distant places, but I could only do it in my imagination, so I read ferociously and imagined things.

On the road and traveling - that's when people are at their most creative.

Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.

Those who have learned to walk on the threshold of the unknown worlds, by means of what are commonly termed par excellence the exact sciences, may then, with the fair white wings of imagination, hope to soar further into the unexplored amidst which we live.

I'm not someone so much interested in exploring a slice of life unless that is down the corridor, around the corner, up the alley, and down the rabbit hole. That, I like.

Something about exploration has fascinated me from a young age.

Our interests are pretty boundless, as is our appetite for new creative experiences.

I always love novels that open up a subject to me - like raising a window to a beautiful, mysterious world outside.

In every film, you get a chance to travel down a new path.

Good travel books, like travel itself, open the door to new worlds. In the strongest works the author's vision becomes our own, especially if his or her subject is a distant destination.

I think that pirates represent every person's ability to get up and leave their current daily situation and go on an adventure, and maybe to see things and do things they've never done before or even dreamed of doing.

To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.

...who can say where a voyage starts - not the the actual passage but the dream of a journey and its urge to find a way?

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.

Childhood, at its best, is a perpetual adventure, in the truest sense of that overtaxed word: a setting forth into trackless lands that might have come to existence the instant before you first laid eyes on them.

I always tell people go see something you don't know about. Something you didn't read a ton about on the internet. Something that you don't know what's going to happen because I think that kind of pleasure of finding something new and discovering it, creates a hunger in you.

It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy... Let's go exploring!

A book is a door, you know. Always and forever. A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world.

The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another. There is something demoralizing about going back to a place to retake pictures. You can no longer see your subjects in a fresh eye; you keep comparing them with the pictures you hold in your memory. [The] world was full of discoveries waiting to be made...(as a photographer) I could share the things I saw and learned...you would react to something all others might walk by.

I am in an altogether new world now. I can think of nothing more wonderful. It is a real touch of all that heaven means.

Always choose the new, the less travelled by. Always choose the unknown, the less travelled by.