I Don't Like Things Too Overstated In

Well, I Design Costumes Because I Started With The Theater In Chicago, But Somehow A Few Lines Just Sort Of Fell To Me To Do It. And I Studied It In School And I Always Liked It.

Sigmund Freud Said We Act Out Our Own Dreams, But If You Are Only An Actor You Are Not Acting Out Your Own Dream. You Are Simply Participating In Someone Else's Dream.

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.

I Don't Need To Be Liked.

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.