There's a positive side to film and television the sense of feeding into the theater... Your fans will follow you hopefully and be open-minded to see you play other things and experience other stories you want to tell.

Being a biological mother just isn't part of my experience this time around. However I am a mother who continues to give birth to ideas and ways of experiencing life that challenge the norm.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot but it can't access the hidden places.

Not what we experience but how we perceive what we experience determines our fate.

I think in most jobs you get better as you get older. You gain experience you gain knowledge.

I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular never-to-be-repeated experience.

So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one which it wasn't in - 21 years ago then I'd think well you know maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on.

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience nor film.

Each of us brings to our job whatever it is our lifetime of experience and our values.