As A Kid, I Had A Background

When I Found Myself In That Situation - That Actors Are Like Children, I Tried To Be Successful. And When It Worked And I Figured Out How To Communicate That Things Were Good - Or At Least Okay - Then I Felt Pleased.

There Are Nearly Thirteen Million People In The World. None Of Those People Is An Extra. They're All The Leads Of Their Own Stories. They Have To Be Given Their Due.

So When I Write Characters And Situations And Relationships, I Try To Sort Of Utilize What I Know About The World, Limited As It Is, And What I Hear From My Friends And See With My Relatives.

From My Vantage Point In Writing A Story, I Can't And Don't And Have No Interest In Thinking About The Level Of Sophistication Of The Audience. I Can Only Think About What Interests Me, And Maybe What I Would Want To See If I Were Watching The Movie. To Me, That's The Key To Writing Something That's Not Pandering.

I Have A Lot Of Anxiety About Medical Things For Example. I Don't Think I'm Particularly Good At It, But I'd Had The Practice When I Went Into Shooting Synecdoche. It Can Be Somewhat Gratifying, Too, Because I Don't Have That Relationship With Other Adults Where I Need To Comfort Them Or They Come To Me For That.