STAGE is all real; it's just as honest except it's bigger. I love stage, I love TV and film, so I think I'll just KEEP EXPLORING and try to keep a really full PICTURE.

That's what we were exploring on 'Larry Sanders' - the human qualities that have brought us to where we are now in the world: the addiction to needing more and wanting more and TALKING more. We were examining the labels PUT on SUCCESS - is it successful to be on TV every day, to be famous, to have a paycheck?

'253' has a LITTLE bit of time in it, but basically, everything's HAPPENING at once in a small SPACE, and you're EXPLORING the space. 'What happens next?' is not the question that you're asking or answering. It's where do you go, and why should you go there?

I like roles that are on the extreme ENDS of the spectrum, and there's special appeal in exploring these SLIGHTLY forgotten plays that people might THINK of as subjects for academic term papers instead of live theater.

Fiction is often most POWERFUL when the AUTHOR is EXPLORING an issue - and not writing LIKE a know-it-all who has the perfect ANSWER.

I understand why society, especially American society, is gravitating TOWARD FAIRY tales, given our ECONOMY. We've been exploring the world of WITCHES and wizards for years. We've been exploring the world of vampires for years. Clearly the public - I MEAN, I feel like all of this was ushered in by 'Harry Potter' - in my own fannish beliefs.

I think I'm BETTER than I was in my YOUNGER days, because I'm exploring DEEP lyrical MATERIAL, and I've been SOBER for a while now.

It was about working with other musicians, but more than that it's about exploring musical areas that you COULD NEVER do with the BAND you're in, in my case Judas Priest. You could tackle musical areas and lyrical areas that wouldn't be APPROPRIATE for Priest.

I played with the same band for YEARS and years and there's a beauty to having one solid core that you KEEP EXPLORING. On the other hand, it's nice to throw yourself in different situations where you find out THINGS about your own resources.

For me, I don't have a GRAND vision PLANNED or an end GOAL. I'm just exploring what's GIVEN to me at any given moment.

I'm fascinated with ACTING now. In retrospect, I was only BEGINNING to chip off the tip of the iceberg with how far I can go or what I was EXPLORING inside of me that I hadn't touched in a while as far as emotional headspaces.

There's an AMAZING power that MUSIC has, and it definitely had its power over me as a boy. I just saw FIT to keep exploring it.

We should be exploring consciousness at the neural LEVEL and higher, where the ARROW of causal analysis points up toward such PRINCIPLES as emergence and self-organization.

I am extremely interested in how PEOPLE negotiate catastrophe, not because I'm morbidly interested in it but because I'm interested in the secret of RESILIENCE; that's what I'm always exploring in the STORIES and the NOVELS.

There certainly is no secret in that there are PLENTY of people who don't LIKE plenty of my movies. Each one of my films is PERSONAL; each one of my films is emotionally autobiographical. And I like directors who do that. With each one of my films, I'm exploring one of my own issues and I try to expose myself a LITTLE in the film.