Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.
I view my career like a rubber-band ball in that every role is a new experience building toward something bigger.
A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.
Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film school.
The movies that are really big, at least in my experience, oftentimes don't have characters that I feel as personally connected to.
I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare.
The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.
I had, probably, a more challenging experience growing up than most middle-class chicks.
I didn't go to high school, so I don't have a high school experience. I was home-schooled during high school.
You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
I never went through a biological clock experience. I never even heard it ticking.
To experience the unique sense of elation that you have when your child is sleeping on your chest in an incomparable emotion.
In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.
Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
'Dune' was like a giant machine, and it was hard to keep track of all the pieces, but 'Blue Velvet' was a very sleek, compact little experience.
I understood that 'The Yellow Birds' would be a peculiar representation of the experience of being at war. I intended it to be so.
I had an unbelievable experience on '24'. We shot 198 episodes, and I was as excited about shooting the 198th as I was the first.
I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don't sell out to the new ones.
I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.
The experience of making a movie is far removed from watching the end result. It's exciting, but it still makes me squirm.