I really like writing from real-life experiences. Audiences seem to prefer the stuff I couldn't have made up.
The purpose of any healthy relationship is to find someone that will magnify your life's experiences, not tolerate it or become a spectator of it.
Sometimes you're reading something, and you don't know it will be important in your life. You're reading this script, and you start to get involved. It's not an intellectual experience.
My cinema is an extension of myself. A sort of life-testimony of my vital experience, with my few virtues and my numerous limitations.
Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.
We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
Eating and food are a wonderful part of our life's experience, and half of us are walking around dreading having to figure out what to put in our mouths.
My first pilot gig, in fact my first job in television, was 'Freaks and Geeks,' and the experience of directing that pilot was probably the single most formative of my directing life.
I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world is huge. There is so much in the world to experience, and the odds are so essential to life.
No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power.
Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
Actors are part of a certain percentage of people on this planet who have an emotional vocabulary as a primary experience. It's as if their life is experienced emotionally and then that is translated intellectually or conceptually into the performanc...
Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.
With dancing, so much is about sexuality and sensuality and without life experience it becomes much more of a performance, rather than a living, breathing entity from the soul.
Melodrama is something that is created... I don't seen a melodramatic episode of '90210' or any show that relies on that and think, 'Oh, that's life. That's how I experience it.'
A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.
It's fun chasing boys, especially when you're young, but I think it takes time and life experience to notice the other boys.
When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience.
A lot of things you see as a child remain with you... you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.
Certainly my personality, my sense of humor, my outlook on life was informed by the experiences of my parents and the stories they shared with me.
I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge regardless of their background or life experiences.
