A big factor that influences me, ... is the integrity level of the person at the helm, who's going to be the director. |
A man like Wilde was not free to live out of the closet as a homosexual, and women in general were not able to be truly themselves; there was no place for a woman's voice to be heard or for her to express her sexuality. |
All of us have read the stories about young people in Hollywood and all the challenges they have to confront there, and I think that artistically, I really didn't understand the commercial side of the film business, so I went back to a purely artistic setting. |
As Jesus was coming to be known, all the cults of women goddesses-fertility and nature goddesses, and so on-were starting to be swept aside. |
Film, there's this whole allure because it just lasts and lasts, but I think the allure for me of doing a play is that it's almost like the sand paintings they make in Venice. It just goes away after one time, and that's it. You had to be there that one night to be part of that. |
He was in a troubled time of his life, and regular therapy wasn't working. So there was this spiritual psychiatrist that I took him to, and afterwards I said, 'Can I ask her? Can I talk to her?' So I said to her, 'Well, what do you think?' She said, 'Well, you know, he thinks he's an alien,' |
I am really not of the school of naturalism. I like style, and you can use more style in theater than in film roles. I love to sink my teeth into a part. |
I don't prefer much of film over stage. The only thing I prefer is the paycheck. |
I found it very frustrating to play her, actually, |
I grew up on musicals, and I know they are quite the thing now, but I'm actually a little indignant, because I started taking singing lessons years ago-I put the time in! |
I just said that, |
I really don't like when things are all polished and perfect - the perfect love story and the hair is perfect. |
I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist. |
I've just been really lucky to not be too much of a stereotype. |
I've sought out several dance teachers-shaman-like women dance teachers-to get in touch with the mystical through movement. |