Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
If you're lucky enough to experience love, what you find is that it can sustain you through the most difficult times.
What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.
I had one relative who passed away but fortunately none others. So my sort of experience of it is quite limited, thankfully.
My advice would be to write what is most personal and specific to your experience or your life. And your voice will emerge and because of its specificity, it will be universal.
The making of 'Naked' was an absolutely phenomenal, mind-bending experience. That film was life-changing and put my career onto a whole different level.
I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.
I've been in a talent show, yeah. They are terrifying. The most nerve-wracking experience of your life, I'd say.
The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.
When I saw 'The Player', I came out with knots in my stomach because it was so true to my experience.
It takes years of building that experience as a filmmaker, as well as physically. You have to have a high level understanding of martial arts.
What artists think about the world is often different from how we businessmen see it, and I find that an enriching experience.
Everybody always tells you what an awesome and unique experience being a parent is. Words can never do the feeling justice.
It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience.
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
Sometimes when you're starting out with acting, you have to take what you can get to get experience and meet people.
Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.
I've never heard God speak out loud to me. That's not an experience I have had.
I would much prefer that they take me as I am, that way the experience is genuine between the both of us.
One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
