Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials.

The only animals I’m not comfortable with are parrots, but I’m learning as I go. I’m getting better and better at ’em. I really am.

I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius… he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

Learning how to learn is life’s most important skill.

I enjoy the element of pushing yourself, learning something new, whether it’s a dance step, a scene, an emotion.

When I have the time at home, I’ll practice three or four hours a day. I have to. And I’m a late starter I started at age 17 and at age 51 I’m still learning.