My long-term plans are just to get as much experience as I can in Australia and try to make my own films.
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.
I've never set a book in Europe. I've lived in Europe three times, but somehow or other it wasn't the experience that engaged me in that way.
Robert Preston in 'The Last Starfighter' had an aura. It was almost a surreal experience meeting him. He exuded charm, warmth and that movie star magnetism that is impossible to describe.
This is my first experience working in a foreign movie, but the mechanics, I think, are pretty much the same all over; you still have to wait in the trailer.
These performers that go on about their technique and craft - oh, puleeze! How boring! I don't know what 'technique' means. But I do know what experience is.
This experience has also humbled me by giving me a true understanding of what millions of others face each day in their own fight against cancer.
You've got to go out there and do your things. Whatever comes your way, you jump on it, and like anything, that's how you get your experience.
If you're working on a movie, you want it to be projected on the largest tapestry possible, and the sound to be perfect, and for that kind of communal experience of the movies to take place for it.
The pain of powerlessness is excruciating. It is the most painful experience in the earth school, and everyone shares it.
Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
It doesn't matter if a critic pans or praises my movies, I am only concerned about that one audience member and what their experience is.
I was very lucky. I left college, and Richard Eyre was in charge of the National Theatre. I was offered the lead in 'The Seagull' with no experience and went on to do five plays there.
I'd heard about Texas football and how much of a religion it is, but to go to Odessa and experience it first-hand is something different than just hearing about it.
When I bought 'The New York Observer,' my experience in journalism was limited to a single article I had written for a college magazine.
I went to England for five months when I was in high school, by myself, so I did experience a bit of being the fish out of water.
Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.
I've done so much theater, and yet I never had an experience like 'The Normal Heart.' We could feel the reaction of the audience every night. It was visceral.
I began to realize that when people experience the love of God, it casts out their fear and frees them from guilt.
