She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.
Everything is a version of something else.
The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't true of my life, though I've experienced most of the emotions experienced by the characters in the play.
When I look back I can't believe I was so stupid as to direct Dealer's Choice.
I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.
I'm a Golden Globe nominee, yes. It's very nice. It's a very nice thing, but I kind of think of all the awards I wasn't ever nominated for, for years and things.
I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.
There is no state with a democracy except Libya on the whole planet.
The world is what it is and won't be bargained with.
It's an amazing feeling to feel that I was able to get a personal connection to the work, through the work of it. But I like the idea that I was able to tell a bunch of people's stories even though I didn't know them.
Whether it's making a film or raising my children, personally I'm striving to do the right things and to learn.