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I Took Part In A Theatre Festival In Massachusetts Two Summers After I Graduated From College. Then I Was In Los Angeles Thinking: "i'm Going To Go To New York." I'd Decided That I Would Not Have A Chance Of A Film Career, So I Was About To Make The Move. I Bought A Plane Ticket And Found A Place To Live In New York, Packed My Bags And Of Course The Universe "told Me" That I Was Not Meant To Go. Suddenly, A Week Before I Was Supposed To Leave, I Had Three Job Offers And One Of Them Was My First Movie.

Life Is A Beautiful Thing. But You're Always Striving To Be Better In Your Art, Striving To Be Heard. And Obviously In A Movie Business, It's Striving To Be Noticed And Appreciated.

We Come From Fallible Parents Who Were Kids Once, Who Decided To Have Kids And Who Had To Learn How To Be Parents. Faults Are Made And Damage Is Done, Whether It's Conscious Or Not. Everyone's Got Their Own 'stuff,' Their Own Issues, And Their Own Anger At Mom And Dad. That Is What Family Is. Family Is Almost Naturally Dysfunctional.

Ignore The Naysayers. Really The Only Option Is, Head Down And Focus On The Job.

With Film, Oftentimes You Work In A Vacuum And Then You Get On A High Wire And Then You Try It And Then The Day's Over And That Piece Of Film Exists Somewhere In A Vault For 1000,000 Years And That's It.