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If you are in the country, you should notice landmarks - that is, objects which help you to find your way or prevent you getting lost, such as distant hills, church towers, and nearer objects, such as peculiar buildings, trees, gates, rocks, etc.

You come to the city, and you have a chance to find out who you really are.

It was becoming clear that, from being at the top at Holy Cross, we were at the bottom at St. Peter's. Objectively, this was very good, for it offered us a challenge and an opportunity to grow if we were ready to take it; and we surely were.

When you're doing a character, you want to know the full landscape. You want to know them spiritually, mentally and physically.

Usually when I'm trying to establish character, I try and find out where they live.

I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there.

When I'm near a native community, I visit it. If I hear there's a spiritual person in the neighborhood, I'll seek them out.

This is a place where you can go, that you can feel safe and look inside yourself and discover yourself.

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.