I loved acting, I started as a child and it is interesting because I didn’t compare myself to others that were doing the same thing. I just felt that I needed to stay focused and stay out of trouble.
Because I tend to kind of hide under the sheets when it comes to reality television. I’ve seen probably one episode of maybe five different shows, and that’s about it.
You can only be a virgin once. There can only be one first time.
My parents treated my like I had a brain – which, in turn, caused me to have one.
I can tell you that, you know, when I went to my first movie premiere, it was my own movie, and I wore the best jeans I had and my favorite top. You know, I made sure my hair had some wave in it because I braided it the night before myself.
I don’t know what it is, exactly, but there’s a negative drag on film sets after the second week or so, a mutinous vibe because the infinite capacities of the directors and everybody else become quite finite and everybody’s under the gun and it becomes work.
Because that’s what intimacy is: It’s a willingness to be vulnerable, a willingness to bite my tongue and a willingness to set an example of what I believe in.
Every film is its own experience, its own planet, its own family. It seems infinite when you’re working on it, and then it’s suddenly very finite, and it’s done.
I’ve found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.
Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.
It’s nice to have a pause to parent and to be more present at home, teaching them how to drive cars and navigate boys and all this sort of thing.
When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York’s La MaMa theater company – without my parents!
When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time.
I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.
Well, I didn’t really admit that I anywhere until my daughter started school and I knew I couldn’t pull up and leave when I felt like it.
Americans are like Pac Man. We just eat our way through the day. There’s always something going into the mouth.
I don’t really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship.
I’m fascinated by how Hollywood has changed since I started. Today it’s about immediate delivery. There’s less risk and less art.
I grew up loving horses. I was relatively obsessed, starting with my rocking horse at age 2, all the way through my painting and drawing phase.
For me, going away to work is the hardest part of my life and career.