Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one?
Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry.
Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained by (vicariously) living through an experience.
What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level.
It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.
I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.
I watch Letterman. Once in a while, on the odd night, I'll catch the Food Network and watch 'Ace of Cakes,' which I'm kind of obsessed with.
You can see my guns at my apartment. The safe room is a special place... It's good to have a safe room in your house. It's storm-proof; we've got food, store supplies, all kinds of stuff.
The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them.
You just feel a little odd when you don't get your kind of food. Fortunately, there are Indian restaurants all over the world.
That's the kind of musical freedom I like: jazz, rock, blues, anything. You adopt different attitudes when you play different music.
It was a great childhood. We weren't especially wealthy or anything, but I felt I had a kind of safety and freedom.
I'm quite detached from failure and success. Once a shooting is done, I kind of close that chapter in my life.
I think we are defined as human beings through our families, no matter what kind of family - through our relationships with parents, brothers and sisters.
I'm a family man, I have kids, and I go to the movies. And I'm just going to make the kind of movie I want to see.
The Jersey Shore is the kind of place where the policeman has a little cottage that might have been in the family for years and many other people call home.
I always loved the verve and vivacity of pulp and I kind of merged it with my own interest in family stories.
It's impossible. You try to have any kind of relationship with your family, with a man, or with a friend, and you have to be on the phone and the Internet the entire time.
As soon as you get traded, you kind of start thinking where you're going to live, your family, you have to pack.
I know I'm not a woman's fantasy man; I don't have to uphold this image of male beauty, so that's kind of a relief in a way.
Suits are looked at more now as a business thing which is kind of a shame. If you're not wearing it just for work, you should try and trick it up a bit.