When You Get To Be 23, 24

I Was Petrified Because All My Friends Would Be Going To Washington, Dc, To Protest. I Was Sixteen, And I Was Like, "i Don't Think I'll Be Going With You Guys," Just Because I Was Scared. Then You Saw The News, And Cops - Not Students In Schools With Guns - Cops Are Killing Sixteen Year Old Protesters On The News. To Me That Was More Horrifying, To Have The Authority Figures Actually Killing People On The Evening News, Than To Have Another Student Firing A Gun.

A Lot Of Times, You're Not Necessarily Off The Page Because You Haven't Been Able To Take The Time To Prepare A Character. It's Very Easy To Find Even Great Actors Reading It More Like A Reading. Things Aren't Really Coming Alive Yet, Even Though You Know They Will.

You Never Look At The Backside Of A Mirror Because When You Do, It'll Affect Your Future Because You're Looking At Yourself Backwards. No, You're Looking At Your Inner Self And You Don't Recognize It Because You've Never Seen It Before.

My Art Teacher In Junior High Was A Very Out Gay Man And A Mentor To Me. He Would Tell Us About Greenwich Village And Show Us The 'village Voice' And Describe His Life, But It Was All Sort Of Subversive And Below The Radar.

Even When You're Making A Movie About Life, Death Is A Presence, And I Guess It's Part Of My Dramatic Viewpoint. I'm Not Sure Why Exactly.