2. What drew you towards art?  
You can become people who are different from you and whom you’ve never thought about, and walk in their shoes. [Art is a way] to find out who you are and get attention.  It’s very gratifying.  Nothing beats the feeling I have when I do theater.   
Why do you think scientists are drawn to their field?  
Because they want to help society.  They’re curious about what goes on, and why things go on in our body.  They want to challenge theories and keep society healthy.   
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3. What do you aim to accomplish in art?  
To make a comfortable living doing what I love and am passionate about.  To not have to give up my hopes and dreams because I can’t make a living.  I would be happy doing any type of theater: directing, musical, etc  
What do you think scientists aim to accomplish?  
To fink answers and reasons behind nature.  To resolve questions and future problems.   
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4.  Do you think what you do is creative?  If so, how?  If not,   
why?  
Yes.  Because it challenges me to use my brains in different ways.  In one play the characters can be portrayed 15 different ways, and the play can be directed 15 different ways, etc.  It’s a very imaginative and creative process.  
Do you think science is creative? If so, how? If not, why?  
Yes, but not exactly in the same way.  It’s creative because you mix chemicals together and try to determine the end result based on past experiences.  For example, makeup artists mix different shades of color to produce a new color.  You must know exactly what colors to use and how much to add, etc.   
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5.  To what degree do emotions play a role in your work if at all?  
Emotions are the core of theater.  You must control your own, but at the same time evoke the audience’s’.  During monologues I have to feel the emotions myself and then transfer it to the audience.  Without emotions, there would be no theater.   
To what degree do you think emotions play a role in science?  
In the medical professions I think they play a role.  I worked at a camp for children with cancer and the nurses there were very attached to the kids.  It pained them to see the kids go through the treatments because the kids only felt the pain.  They didn’t realize what the end result of the treatment would be.  Even with something like getting a shot, it is hard to inflict pain on someone else.  
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6.  What is beauty?  
Beauty is a belief and confidence in oneself.  When you don’t cover yourself over with materialistic things but be yourself.  
Do you find beauty in art?  
Yes.  Art has the power to change some people’s awful ideas and opinions, such as racism.  You can reach someone’s inner soul and keep them vulnerable for 1 or 2 hours.  It allows people to travel through different times and places and let them experience life in a different way.  It evokes emotions and makes them feel.   
Do you find beauty in science?  
Yes and no.  Yes because it helps cure diseases like cancer, measles, mumps, etc.  No, because it’s begun to involve too much money.  Medical care is expensive but it seems like good health care and treatment is only for the elite, and the minorities are pushed out.  Also, a lot of doctors try to act like supreme beings (for example, plastic surgery).  I don’t think that is beautiful.  They are trying to imitate beauty and it doesn’t work.  Also, some reports have said that scientists are keeping some vaccines secret because there is already an overpopulation problem and the vaccines will only make it worse.    That is wrong.  It goes against nature.  It is anti-Darwinian.  
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7.  Do you think art and science are related?  If so, how?  If not, why?  
Yes.  Both have the intent to change and better society.  In both you must keep trying and practicing to get and end result and it takes a lot of trial and error.  Also, recently theater has been for the rich.  This is caused by money-hungry people, but we are trying to better things.   
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8.  Which do you think plays a greater role: science in art or art in science?  
There is more art in science.  Creativity is needed in science.  Also some theater techniques are used in psychology.  In theater you must know yourself before you assume the role of someone else.  This has been used lately by psychologists in therapy.   
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9.  When you are observing nature, what thoughts come to mind?  
How wonderful and amazing everything is.  I wonder how and why things happen the way they do.  But I also think that one day all of it will be gone.  Everything in nature goes by so quickly and most people don’t take the time to notice it.  That’s something that theater has helped me with: in theater you must be aware of everything.  Now I notice things that I didn’t before.  
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10.  What do you consider success in your field?  
Realistically, success is for me to make a living doing what I love.  My passion lies in theater and I want to allow it to surface.  My passion doesn’t lie in something that’s more practical or what society views as more useful.  I don’t want to have to cover up my passion because of that.  Through theater I can help people and better their lives.  For example, the Matthew Shepard incident: I wondered what might have happened if one of the people that committed the crime had seen a play I did involving homosexuality.  I wondered if maybe the play could have changed their opinions because they would have experienced how it felt to be in that type of situation.  Listening to music or watching plays has always helped me to work out my own problems.   
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2.  What drew you towards science?  
Learning.  Science is more analytical.  There’s always a logical system.  It’s not always right, but there’s always a system; whereas art is more creative.  
Why do you think artists are drawn to their field?  
Because they are more attained to the beauty and creativity of art.  Art is beautiful and in order to continually do art one must have a sense of creativity with that, or else it gets boring.  
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3.  What do you aim to accomplish in science?  
I aim to accomplish personal understanding as well as teaching others understanding.  
What do you think artists aim to accomplish?  
Exposition of their souls.  They want to express their views and thoughts without words.  Where words are limited, pictures are not.  Poetry is beyond words.  A good poet can paint a picture beyond words which conveys a message.  
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4.  Do you think what you do is creative?  If so, how?  If not,   
why?  
Yes–because if it wasn’t creative, science would be in the same place.  It’d be stuck.  You need people who want to go beyond what is known.  Creativeness is going beyond the limits of knowledge.  Einstein explained relativity, and that was beyond the understanding of that time period.  He held to it, and people finally realized that it was actuality.  
Do you think art is creative? If so, how? If not, why?  
Yes.  The creativity involved depends on the type of art.  Art visualizes beliefs as well as values and usually those are beyond understanding.  
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5.  To what degree do emotions play a role in your work if at all?  
Science frustrates me as well as challenges me.  Emotion does play a large role in what I do.  
To what degree do you think emotions play a role in art/?  
It depends on the type of art.  Some arts are very personal and emotionally expressive.  Other art has the purpose to teach.  
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6.  What is beauty?  
Beauty is...God’s creation.  When one realizes his place in the grand scheme of things.  
Do you find beauty in art?   
In certain art–yes.  
Do you find beauty in science?  
Yes–in certain kinds of science.  But science doesn’t have beauty when the scientist doesn’t realize his position in the grand scheme.  For example, when scientists try to play the role of God through genetic engineering and cloning processes.  
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7.  Do you think art and science are related?  If so, how?  If not, why?  
Yes–they are connected through beauty, which goes back to my definition.  Both are a means of expressing oneself, I guess.  
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8.  Which do you think plays a greater role: science in art or art in science?  
Art in science.  Art challenges the “reality” of the world.  Science uses art as a stepping stone to see if it can be seen as reality.  
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9.  When you are observing nature, what thoughts come to mind?   
Beauty.  
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10.  What do you consider success in your field?  
The ability to teach what you’ve learned to others and to be content with yourself and your progress.  
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2.  Why do you think scientists are drawn to their field?  
For a combination of reasons, but mostly due to an innate curiosity and desire to make a contribution to humanity in the form of a contribution to a body of knowledge.  
Why do you think artists are drawn to their field?  
Probably for the same reason, but not so much to contribute to a body of knowledge.  Instead, artists use different methods when contributing to humanity.  
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3.  What do you think scientists aim to accomplish?  
They aim to define what science cannot define.  They reach the realms that are untouched by science in order to understand them better.  
What do you think artists aim to accomplish?  
They want to define everything in the universe and by doing so they wish to understand it.  
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4.  Do you think science is creative? If so, how? If not, why?  
Yes. It is based on interpretation and the process of seeing.  It requires the ability to assimilate what you see into a world view or reality.  Science does include shared perceptions, but solely its based on individuals own personal perceptions.  
Do you think art is creative? If so, how? If not, why?  
Yes–definitely, and for the same reason that science is creative.  It requires the process of seeing.  Emotions are manifested.  There is visual stimuli and it takes creativity to perceive it in a certain way.  
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5.  To what degree do you think emotions play a role in art?  
Emotions play a very important role.  Artists aren’t hindered by a necessity to have a reproducible result.  They don’t have to prove anything.  
To what degree do you think emotions play a role in science?  
Emotions in science are kind of repressed.  In the scientific process, they play a minimal role.  
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6.  What is beauty?  
Beauty is something that satisfies your expectations, but then goes beyond.  It adds a little more that is unexpected, and gives it a twist that makes it beautiful.  
Do you find beauty in art?  
Yes–there is beauty in observation.  
Do you find beauty in science?  
Yes. Science seeks to break down and explain specific parts.  In doing that you see more beauty in the parts than in the whole object.  For example, the patterns involved in a math formula show the beauty in the specific parts of a whole.  
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7.  Do you think art and science are related?  If so, how?  If not, why?  
Yes--humans adapt to their environment through the collection of knowledge of their surroundings.  
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8.  Which do you think plays a greater role: science in art or art in science?  
Science in art.  Science tends to exclude things that aren’t science.  Art embraces almost anything.  
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9.  When you are observing nature, what thoughts come to mind?  
I think about how old the earth is and how little of the time humans have inhibited it.  
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10.  What do you consider success in your field?  
Happiness in one’s present situation is considered success.  
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