I'd Always Need A Creative Outlet. But

I Absolutely Love Religions And The Rituals. Even Though I Don't Believe In God, We Celebrate Pretty Much Every Religion In Our Family With The Kids.

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.

I'd Like To Work More As A Director. It's Distracting Being An Actor, Because - There's A Lot Of Reasons. You Find Out You're Going To Work About Six Months Before You Start Shooting, And Then There's Prep And There's Post Afterward, And There's Stuff To Do, And Then Suddenly You've Gone A Year Without Directing. There's A Part Of Me That Has To Not Be Tempted By That In Order To Commit More To The Directing. Honestly, The Big Reason For Me To Act Is To Observe Other Directors And Learn From Them. That Seems To Be The Biggest Draw.

I'm A Technician. I Don't Go For The Get-into-the-role Stuff. I Read The Lines And Play The Scenes.