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Our Kids Are Growing Up With More Privilege Than We Had; That's True For Most Of My Friends In L.a. I Don't Know Any Actor Who Grew Up With Any Particular Privilege, So Everyone Wrestles With This. And I Think, A Lot Of Times, It's About Being Patient With Your Kids.

Sending Our Kids In My Family To Private School Was A Big, Big, Big Deal. And It Was A Giant Family Discussion. But It Was A Circular Conversation, Really, Because Ultimately We Don't Have A Choice. I Mean, I Pay For A Private Education And I'm Trying To Get The One That Most Matches The Public Education That I Had, But That Kind Of Progressive Education No Longer Exists In The Public System. It's Unfair.

The Director's In Charge Of Every Single Decision [in Film]. It's A Dictatorship.it's A Benevolent Dictatorship, But It's True. It's Every Single Shot. There's Nothing Arbitrary.

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Being Known As A Writer Did Change The Relationships I Had With Directors. The Rap On Actors Is That They Always Want To Inflate Their Parts. But When Directors Know You Write Screenplays And Have A Different View Of Things, You Really Get Invited Into The Huddle In A Much Fuller Way. And Those Collaborations End In Friendships.