But The Reason I Became, Why I

~i Used To Think, What If There's An Interesting Movie And It Conflicts With The Boys Going To A New School For The First Time?... Well, I Didn't Anticipate That Was Going To Be About A Two-second Dilemma. I Didn't Know The Choices Would Be So Easy To Make.~

Every Movie Changes You. The Process Of Making A Film Changes You. You Have To Be Obsessed, You Have To Get Up At 3 In The Morning And Go "wait, I Have An Idea!" You Have To Continually Be Drawn Over And Over Again To Deepening Inside That Story, And Ruminating Over Questions: "why Would He Say This To Her? Why If He Was Standing There, Would She Go?" Every One Of Those Answers Has To Come From Some Personal Place, And In Order To Do That, You Can't Sit On The Surface. It's Such A Big Change That You Can't Really Explain It To Anyone Else.

With 'taxi Driver,' I Had This Eureka Moment. I Realized That Acting Could Be Much More Than What I Had Been Doing. I Had To Build A Character That Wasn't Me.

I'm An Atheist. But I Absolutely Love Religions And The Rituals. Even Though I Don't Believe In God. We Celebrate Pretty Much Every Religion In Our Family With The Kids. They Love It, And When They Say, 'are We Jewish?' Or 'are We Catholic?' I Say, 'well, I'm Not, But You Can Choose When You're 18. But Isn't This Fun That We Do Seders And The Advent Calendar?'

I Like To Be In A Different Place When I Make A Movie So That I Can't Really Focus On Anything Else, And That Is Your World.