I may be ignorant but I ain't stupid!

There's a real danger in trying to stay king of the mountain. You stop taking risks, you stop being as creative, because you're trying to maintain a position. Apart from anything else that really takes the fun out of it.

I may be ignorant but I ain't stupid!

It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.

I've not had a mean life.

But you finally think, there is what there is, and you have to work within those confines and just keep chipping away at your own work.

I didn't worry about leaving the fast lane - I was just so consumed with my baby that it seemed like the right thing to do. I never felt like I left New York, though. If you've lived in a place and loved it, you never feel like you left it.