We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
I'm interested in having a relationship with the world that's not my own.
I think one of the most fascinating things you can do after you learn about your own people is to study something about the history and culture of other people.
The films I enjoy seeing are those that reveal lives I was unaware of... in different cultures or whatever.
The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self.
Another world exists that I must experience. A genus of people exists who I must meet. I must inhale the air they breathe--share their world at all costs.
The gift art gives us is that instead of seeing only our own world, we see into other times, which offers a window into other cultures and sensibilities.
One of my few virtues - I don't have a lot of them - would be a deep sense of curiosity. I'm interested in how other people live in other places; I'm interested in other cultures.
I was just fascinated with how everyone else in the world lived, and I was interested in telling their story.
Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate how different people had written about motherhood, and childhood.
I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly not all tutus! So experience of other dance forms is a good idea.
I think the international appeal of SF is quite understandable since the kinds of people who like to read it, are, by the nature of the beast, interested in other cultures, of which other nations on Earth are the closest available example.
