I've Always Been Pretty Levelheaded. In Show

I Always Wonder About People's History And Their Lives, Especially People That Are A Little Bit More Distant, Who Obviously Have Had Some Kind Of A Thing And You Know There's Some Reason Why They're Not Able To Connect. It's Not Because They Don't Want To. They Don't Have The Ability.

Once I Get On Something, Once I Have Something That I'm Working On, Then I Become Very Obsessive. In A Good Way. I Mean,... Is There A Positive Way To Say Obsessive? It's A Good Thing And If You're Out There And You're Working On Something Right Now And You're Crazed And You're Up In The Middle Of The Night, Or You Can't Stop Thinking About It, Or You Have To Keep Reading Other Things About The Subject That You're Working On Or Whatever. That's Good And I Think That's Necessary Creatively.

I Can Be Very Snobby About Fiction, Especially Contemporary Fiction. I Can Be Kind Of Overly Demanding, I Think. But This Is, I Think, A Good Time. A Lot Of Fiction Comes Out Right Now. So, I Like Reading The Memoir. I Love Memoir, The Biography, Auto Bio.

We Still Want To Idealize Moms, And Sometimes We Want To Idealize Actresses Who Are Moms, Too. I Know That's Something I've Experienced, But We're All Just Doing The Best We Can And We're All Trying To Raise Our Kids And Talk To Them About Everything That Needs To Be Discussed.

Most Of The People That I've Worked With When Shooting Films That I Really Respect, There Is A Point Which You Do Become Obsessed In A Good Way. And Because It's A Collaborative Medium, You're Not By Yourself In A Room Tearing Your Hair Out, You're In A Room With A Bunch Of People. And We're All Tearing Our Hairs Out, Or Trying To Get Something Right, Or Caring Deeply About Something. But That's Fun.