The Empty Nest Is Underrated.

When Something Like This Happens, You Suddenly Have No Sense Of Reality At All. You Have Lost A Piece Of Your Past. The Infidelity Itself Is Small Potatoes Compared To The Low-level Brain Damage That Results When A Whole Chunk Of Your Life Turns Out To Have Been Completely Different From What You Thought It Was. It Becomes Impossible To Look Back At Anything That's Happened ... Without Wondering What Was Really Going On.

One Of The Great Things About Movies Is That It's Just That Short Period Of Time. It's A Bubble. The Last Thing You Want To Know Is That Elizabeth And Darcy Had A Fight Over How To Treat The Servants!

What I Love About Cooking Is That After A Hard Day, There Is Something Comforting About The Fact That If You Melt Butter And Add Flour And Then Hot Stock, It Will Get Thick! It's A Sure Thing! It's A Sure Thing In A World Where Nothing Is Sure; It Has A Mathematical Certainty In A World Where Those Of Us Who Long For Some Kind Of Certainty Are Forced To Settle For Crossword Puzzles.

It Had Better Be Quirky Or Perverse Or Thoughtful Enough So That You Hit Some Chord In Them. I Mean We've All Read Pieces Where We Thought, 'oh, Who Gives A Damn.'

I Definitely Divide My Life Into Decades. Almost Every Ten Years, Something In My Work Life Has Changed. My Twenties Were My Journalistic Phase, Then There Was My Screenwriting Phase, Then I Became A Director, Then I Started Doing Some Plays.