I teach a lot - I teach at the UCLA and USC graduate film programs - and a lot of those projects are my students' projects that I act in or I do a cameo.

My style is casual-chic? Casual-messy?

Generally you don't initiate the projects - they're designed and you're inserted. Your material is edited by somebody. You feel a lack of power over your work.

You want to be interesting? Be interested.

He was so. So dirty, and just moving in front of me, and cute. I was in love with him, especially because he was talking to me.

If you just read the book, you're taking in the narrative, you're taking in the characters, you're understanding it in a certain way. If you make a movie it's really an act of translation.

Reviews about film acting are very... tricky, because movies are such a collaborative thing.