Mark Sheppard Quotes

I'm just quizzical about how things work and why things are.

The point of an experiment is not to arrive at a predetermined end point, to prove or disprove anything, but to deliver a poem that reveals much about the process taken.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

I don't think you can approach any piece of art with boundaries or rules. I think respect is a very important thing, but I also think what we discover along the way is really important.

It's funny, I'm very analytical in my real life, but in terms of my films, I try to not analyze them at all and let things just go into them and let them be what they are. I mean, people ask me to this day what 'The Squid and the Whale' stood for, and I have no idea except that it's an exhibit in the Natural History Museum.

I relax by looking at things and reading about things. Even the simplest thing can reveal a great deal about the world around us. It relaxes me greatly to sit back with my feet up and look around my study at the everyday things that surround me.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.

The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.

I don't take a scene or word for granted.

I'm always most interested in writing about things that I don't understand.

If it were all in the script, why make the film?

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

I'm not fascinated by one particular case, but by knowledge that I had no idea was out there.

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

For the scientists, they're kind of puzzled and pleased that somebody finds their work interesting. It makes it fun for me. I feel like I've sort of turned over a stone that hasn't been turned over.

Everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret.

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

I enjoy looking beyond the obvious and look at the stories happening all around me - you kind of formulate things in your mind and get excited about them.

I like the idea of finding parts that I know I can do but I don't totally understand them right away.