I Fantasize About Having A Manual Job

I Love The Way L A. Leaves You Alone. I Can Go Home, Read All Day, And Nobody Bugs Me.

As An Actor, I'm Attracted To Drama; As A Director, It's Humor - Because It's The Story Of My Life, And I Can't Be That Serious About It. Being Alone Is A Big Theme In All My Movies, Both As A Director And As An Actress.

When I Was Growing Up, Books Took Me Away From My Life To A Solitary Place That Didn't Feel Lonely. They Celebrated The Outcasts, People Who Sat On The Margins Of Society Contemplating Their Interiors. . . Books Were My Cure For A Romanticized Unhappiness, For The Anxiety Of Impending Adulthood. They Were All Mine, Private Islands With Secret Passwords Only The Worthy Could Utter.

Acting, For Me, Is Exhausting. I'm Always More Energized By Directing. It's More Intense To Direct. I Can Pop In And Express Myself, Then Pop Out Again. It's A Huge Passion For Me.

With 'taxi Driver,' I Had This Eureka Moment. I Realized That Acting Could Be Much More Than What I Had Been Doing. I Had To Build A Character That Wasn't Me.