I haven't physically attacked anyone in a couple of years.

I know I have a fairly strong feminine side. I find myself really distanced from male behavior.

My father could be very distancing. My clearest memory is of him squatting, watering plants for hours and hours at a time, completely silent. He was very self-contained; my mother was more outgoing and chatty and social. I'm certainly more like her.

I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity.

What you really need to build a character is exactly what you don't have in the movies - time. You know, movies are like a line drawing. You have to make very quick decisions, which are, in the end instinctive. Or you make a decision to say "Well, maybe I can do that, because... Oh, that could be irritating after a while, or distracting, etc. etc." Some of it is a matter of time, always.

There's no worse feeling in the world than realizing the play you've directed doesn't work.

And if you say a word about this over the radio, the next wings you see will belong to the flies buzzing over your rotting corpse.