I Never Grew Up Thinking, 'one Day

For Some Reason, People Find Me Funny. It's Quite Hard To Define Why A Thought Is Funny. It's Even Harder To Define Why A Person Would Be Funny. It's A Word That I Can't Define At All. But Whether I Know Quite What It Is Or Not, I Seem To Be It.

My Father Was A Jazz Listener, And I Think, At Least Before I Was 5, I Was Not So Into That. Although There Were Records That Emphasized Percussion That I Liked, Like Baby Dodds.

I Grew Up In A Very Polite Family, And I Suppose My Parents Were Both Very Polite, And From The Time I Was A Young Boy, I Suspected That There Were Passions Seething Underneath And Not Being Mentioned, And That Was Something That Came To Preoccupy Me. Somehow I Had Some Drive To Write Down What People Might Really Be Thinking.

I Am Recognized A Lot For Clueless, But I Am Recognized A Great Deal For The Princess Bride. I Dont Know... Maybe Everybody Who Has Seen That Movie Just Goes Out On The Street.

Children, I Always Think, Are Just Putting On A Performance Of Being Naive And Not Understanding Anything. I Have Worked With Children In Films, And They're Treated As Adults And They Just Drop The Pretense Of Being Children.