Douglas McGrath Quotes

While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things.

It's always interesting exploring something that has dimensions and layers to it.

I'm just super nosy, I love trying to understand what's going on.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

Curiosity - the rover and the concept - is what science is all about: the quest to reveal the unknown.

When I don't understand things, I become passionate to understand.

I was always tearing stuff apart to see how it worked.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

I like deconstructing things. I like cutting the legs out from under something that feels secret.

Appreciating complexity while searching through its thickets to find essential factors leads to understanding.

Every single day, I'm curious about everything. Curiosity is finding answers to things.

You can learn more about anything, and the truth about almost anything is surprising.

If I experiment enough, I get a deeper understanding.

There's a lot you can learn about something by taking it apart.

As with every phenomenon of the objective universe, the first step toward understanding work is to analyze it.

Words build bridges into unexplored regions.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

You know, the great thing about acting or, indeed, filmmaking in general, is that we're all given a reason to do research. You kind of have to, really, if you want to know what you're doing, but it opens up this whole new understanding.

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

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

The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.

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

When something is written for you or handed to you, sometimes there's a very interesting dance as you discover what it is that's required.