You live in an apartment in New York, and you think all the time about like, ‘I don’t even know who’s living above me.’ There are all these anonymous people in that window or that window or that window, and everybody has their own interesting life that I know nothing about.
Somehow I had a lot of the skills that I didn’t know were required for directing. I didn’t realize that my life had been leading in that direction.
Writing, directing – it’s just torture every time and it doesn’t seem to get any easier. And yet I love them and I’m not going to stop doing them.
I have a hard time with films that I feel like I can predict every twist or turn they take from the moment I start reading the script.
And he doesn’t really – it’s never awkward when you’re talking to Tom Hanks. I’ve never seen him have an awkward conversation with anybody.
I think acting helps me as a director no matter what. There is something about being reminded about the vulnerability it takes to be an actor and what I’m really asking of actors every day when I’m on set as a director that I think it’s a really good reminder.
As women we are very accustomed to putting ourselves in the shoes of male leads.
I was always seen as defiant. And I did know that as a kid. It just wasn’t something that was stamped out of me. I often had problems in school where I would stand up to teachers or I would believe that something they were saying was wrong.
I had a great family. Nobody ever told me that I should stop raising my hand in class or that I should become – as a girl, that I should somehow become less confident.
I was connected to the theater, it was my first love, where my career was focused, on interesting ways to tell stories.
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