I Fantasize About Having A Manual Job

Everybody Reads For Me. I Was Never Weird About That. I Never Minded Coming In And Reading. They Should Know If I'm The Right Person, And I Should Know If I Want To Do A Movie.

What I Didn't Realize Is How Completely Consumed I Would Be By My Sons. I Didn't Know That The Rest Of My Life Would Become So Little A Priority.

Boys Are Easy. I Mean, There Are Just A Lot Of Bruises When They're Young. With Boys, You Get A Lot Of Accidental Jabs In The Eye And Stepping On Your Feet, And Those Tantrums They Cause When They Don't Want To Leave The Toy Store.

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.

Definitely, There's A Lot Of Trouble You Come Up Against When You're Acting And Directing, About Your Performance. Sometimes It's Hard To Be Objective About It. I Will Tend To Get Two Takes And Walk Away. I Don't Belabor It, And It's Important To Me To Have Someone Who Says, "you Know What? You Should Get Another One, And Maybe You Should Try It Like That".