Muriel Lebrun Marceau's early years as an actress involved her in the theater. Later in her life while watching a performance by Marcel Marceau, the famous French mime, she became aware of an element that she feels can lift theater from the entertaining to the inspirational. She discussed this in the following interview, conducted by Journal staff member
Eva-Maria Hogrefe: Would you say that the reason spiritual qualities uplift human consciousness is that they speak of God?
Muriel Lebrun Marceau: Yes. The expression of such qualities enriches one with fresh inspiration and stills the distracting commotion of human fears. For me the stillness sometimes conveyed in art is almost a prelude to prayer.