I Distinguish Sentiment From Sentimentality. Sentimentality Makes

I Know Not Everyone Starts Out Reading High Literature. If You Read Enough You Might Be Drawn To Some Other Things, So Maybe Those Vampire Books Are What They Call 'gateway Books.' I Just Coined That Term. I Don't Know If There's A Thing Called 'gateway Books.

We Don't Have A Lot Of Space In Our Imaginations To Allow People To Expand What They Do.

I Remember The First Day I Was Looking At My Hands And I Thought About My Nails. People Wouldn't Really Be Paying Attention To That, But A Civil War Doctor - What Would They Be Doing With Their Nails? Would They Cut Them Really Low? And Dr. Burns Said, "no, They Would Let Them Grow Out So They Can Scoop Stuff Out. They Would Use Their Nails." So For A While I Let My Nails Grow. They Were Too Long. I Kept Stabbing Myself By Accident, So I Cut Them Down, But I Was Trying To Be Faithful To The Details.

My Film School Is Making Movies. But, I Do Think That Being An Actor Has Served Me Immensely, As Both A Writer And Director, In Terms Of Knowing What Is Playable And What Will Be Fun To Play, For Actors, And Also How To Communicate To Actors On Set, And Not Screw Them Up And Get Them In Their Head.

I'll Say This, And This Has Nothing To Do With Gender Or Sexuality: You Do Not Want To Get Licked In The Face Repeatedly By Another Human Being. You Just Don't. It's Not Pleasant.