I loved making Pure Country. It was a great learning experience for me seeing another part of the entertainment industry.

The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic partly due to the irregularity of the air and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center.

Also I knew that the impact of Motorcycle Diaries was going to be so resonant for all of us who went through the experience of making it that I didn't want to do anything that could reflect it.

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.

My advice would be to write what is most personal and specific to your experience or your life. And your voice will emerge and because of its specificity it will be universal.

Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something.

So if I have two pieces of cake do I have twice as good an experience as the first piece of cake? One of the things I've found in life is that the first piece of cake is the best.

Dramatic experience is not logical it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak in criticism of form.

I've had a lot of experience in independent film and about how to choose. You've got to be very discerning about where you put your five bucks and where you cut and what you don't cut.

Being in love is the only transcendent experience.