I love a certain kind of acting style that I would call non-American, which tends to be more detail-oriented and less externalized. There's a kind of naturalism that I often find in non-American actors. I also find that quality in the American actors I work with, but I like to bring in those influences creatively.

I think parenting well is not so different than trying to consider how to be successful at any relationship. Like, how do you partner well? How do you collaborate well? How do we have this conversation well? You know, you're always trying to figure out what "well" means, so I think parenting is another version of that.

People, for reasons of kind of security, they tend to move towards people like themselves.

I'm a version of the same person.

To come to change, there had to be conflict and pain.

By 1988, I was living in New York myself.

My early films were about self discovery, and films of internal conflict. At that level, they were very personal.