In ways I don't entirely have the words for, an experience, thought or a lesson isn't real for me until I've written down.
I've had one experience of writer's block in my life, and it was living hell. It was a terror for me.
My cinema is an extension of myself. A sort of life-testimony of my vital experience, with my few virtues and my numerous limitations.
My wife and I use a lot of garlic and rosemary with roast lamb. It has to be New Zealand lamb. The domestic variety is too gamy, in my experience.
I prefer department stores. In boutiques, they come up and ask you if you need help. I can't get lost in the experience.
Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.
Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine.
'Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns.
People say to me that I can't be nervous because I've had such a wealth of experience, but I tell them that I have never done this particular part before.
No kidding. That's really true. You're paying your own bills through this. It's not a pleasant experience.
When I write a song, it is to fill a niche in people's lives. To have a song for every experience if one hadn't been written yet.
'Each One Lost' I wrote the day after I got home. My week in Afghanistan was a very short trip, but it was a powerful experience.
Being exposed to different production environments in Korea, Japan and the U.S. was a great experience, and each system allows you to quench your thirst in a different way.
If you believe your catcher is intelligent and you know that he has considerable experience, it is a good thing to leave the game almost entirely in his hands.
Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.
My long-term plans are just to get as much experience as I can in Australia and try to make my own films.
Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and emotion as fiction is.
Anybody that's been through a divorce, and I hope it's something people never have to experience, it's the worse thing in the world.
The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.
I hadn't been free from adult responsibilities since I was 12, and I needed to experience that. I really needed to just be a kid again.
I think, as a younger actor, you are more open to the experience. And to an extent, you want to go into things blind and energised as if you were 15. Keep that terror.
