With Failure, You Just Try Again.

You Have To Be So Confident And So Gifted To Fill Five Minutes Of Nothing At The Very Beginning Of A Play Before Even A Word Is Uttered.

Part Of The Reason I Thought That I Might Do A Series Is, My Dad Has Pretty Much Been On The Same Road To Work For Years And Years. And It's Like, "could I Do Something Like That? Am I So Independent That I Can't Punch The Clock At The Same Place?" So Part Of It Was A Kind Of Exercise. "can I Be Responsible In This Way?" And Lo And Behold, I Could. Luckily. It'd Be Bad If I Couldn't.

I Put Less Stock In Others' Opinions Than My Own. No One Else's Opinions Could Derail Me.

We [ With Emilio Estevez] Asked If We Could Take Some Things [ In Breakfast Club] That Weren't In The Shooting Draft, But From Earlier Drafts, "can We Maybe Use This?" And Hughes Was Very Amenable To All That. And There Was Some Stuff That I Liked, And I Said, "how About This?" And He Went, "well, We'll Check With Molly [ringwald]. Those Scenes Are With Her. And If She Likes It, Fine." So It Was Just Wonderful. It Was Great.

Voice-over Stuff Is So Much Fun Because You Don't Have Hair And Makeup And Wardrobe. You Get To Show Up. And There Were Some Talented People, And We Don't Even Know Them. And They're So Gifted. They Can Do All These Accents And Voices. It's Really Fun To Do That Stuff. It's Really Like Actor Camp.