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The Trouble With Being An Activist Is You End Up Like Eve And You Get Kicked Out Of The Garden Of Eden. You Know, Eve Was The First Person Who Thought For Herself. And She Still Gets A Bad Rap. I Named My Daughter After Her.

You Create This Situation Where You Are So Dependent On Each Other. That's Especially True For Film. In Theater, The Actor Has Much More Say, Much More Control, For Better Or Worse.

I Was A Voracious Reader And The Library Fed My Curiosity, Imagination And My Soul. I Read By The Shelf - Biographies, Fantasy - All And Everything Fed My Dreams. Then As An Adult Whenever I Would Go On Location The First Thing We Would Do As A Family Is Sign Up At The Closest Library. Not Only Would We Find Books, But What Was Happening In That Town, Because The Library Is The Head Of The Community.

We Were Friends With Jonathan Demme. We Were All Down On The West Side Of New York, And I Think I Met Kurt Vonnegut Through Edith Demme. And Then I Was Lucky To Do Who Am I This Time? 1982, Which Was An Adaptation Of His Short Story That Jonathan Demme Directed With Chris Walken And I, And That Really Cemented The Friendship.

I Hate The Assumption That Once You're Committed To Someone You Stop Treating Each Other Like Individuals. I Like Getting Up Knowing I Am Choosing To Be With That Person.