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Now That I Have Kids, I'm Probably More Overprotective Than I've Ever Been. My Wife's Nickname For Me Is "red Alert." I Sometimes Check Just To See If The Kids Are Breathing. But I Try Not To Be A Helicopter Parent.

Still, The Change Is Nearly Indescribable - Going From Total Obscurity To Walking Down A Street In New York And Having Everybody Turn And Look; To Feel The Temperature Of A Room Change When I Walked In.

Before The Days Of Video Village A Director Should Stand Right Next To The Camera, Look With His Naked Eye And If He Sees Something That Is Real To Him, He'd Look Up At The [camera] Operator And If He Gives The Look To Indicate He'd Seen It To, Then You Print And You'd Move On.

Clint Eastwood Enables And Allows Things To Happen. You Walk On Some Sets And It's Like Walking Into An Emergency Room. It's Like, "come On Guys, We're Just Making A Movie Here." That Tension Runs Into The Performances And Into The Movie.

If Anybody Wanted To Photograph My Life, They'd Get Bored In A Day. 'heres Matt At Home Learning His Lines. Here's Matt Researching In Aisle Six Of His Local Library'. A Few Hours Of That And They'd Go Home.