I Was Raised With A Single Mom

With 'taxi Driver,' I Had This Eureka Moment. I Realized That Acting Could Be Much More Than What I Had Been Doing. I Had To Build A Character That Wasn't Me.

There Is Nothing More Beautiful Than Finding Your Course As You Believe You Bob Aimlessly In The Current. And Wouldn't You Know That Your Path Was There All Along, Waiting For You To Knock, Waiting For You To Become. This Path Does Not Belong To Your Parents, Your Teachers, Your Leaders, Or Your Lovers. Your Path Is Your Character Defining Itself More And More Every Day.

Every Movie Changes You. The Process Of Making A Film Changes You. You Have To Be Obsessed, You Have To Get Up At 3 In The Morning And Go "wait, I Have An Idea!" You Have To Continually Be Drawn Over And Over Again To Deepening Inside That Story, And Ruminating Over Questions: "why Would He Say This To Her? Why If He Was Standing There, Would She Go?" Every One Of Those Answers Has To Come From Some Personal Place, And In Order To Do That, You Can't Sit On The Surface. It's Such A Big Change That You Can't Really Explain It To Anyone Else.

'taxi Driver' Was The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me, And I Didn't Become A Weirdo And Squawk Like A Chicken.

I Had A Prodigious Life, Living In A Grown-up World When I Was A Child. But I Think My Abilities Were About Perceptiveness, And They Were About Examining Psychology And Examining People And Relationships.