There's Always A Side Of A Woman

As Someone Who Has Been Asked To Ask David Lynch What His Movies Mean For 25 Years, I'm Very Careful About Asking Artists What Their Art Means.

I Do Think My Mother Was A Bit Overprotective, Not In Any Sordid Way, But Just Normally. She Certainly Might Say To Me, "you Know, Laura, I Don't Have A Good Feeling About That Guy. I Don't Know If I Want You To Go Out With Him."

I Would Say Steven Spielberg Is Family To Me. He's A Genius. We Survived A Hurricane Together. I Ran From Half-puppet,half-nothing Creatures. It Was Months Of Our Life As Family. It Was The Wildest Film, Jurassic Park, I'd Ever Worked On That Way.

Unfortunately, Overall, Movies Are A Conglomerate. People Buy And Sell People In This Business, Which Can Get Really Ugly Unless You Have The Right Set Of Values And Understand Why You're Doing It. Luckily, I Was Raised By People Who'd Already Gotten To That Point, And Seen All The Yuck Stuff - Which Is Probably Why They Originally Didn't Want Me To Act.

I've Always Loved Film More Than Theater, And Film May Be More Closely Related To Making A Record Because You Have That Ability To Go In And Do Your Work And Have No Judgment Around It, And Feel Honest. Then, Much Later, It's Presented To People. But In Theater, People Come Backstage After A Performance And You're About To Do The Same Play Again The Next Night, And People Say, "well, I Didn't Really Believe That Emotion" Or Whatever. It's Really Hard For Me, I Like To Be Closed Up And Just Do The Work.