Over a YouTube clip about animals. "Laboratory animals see sunlight for the first time", or "elephant mourns his best friend the goat". I watch something like that every day and I'm always in pieces.
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Two weeks before shooting – after some of our financing dropped out – when the producers said I had to cut a week’s worth of scenes out of my script. I was on location and away from my daughters [currently in middle and high school] who I felt were needing a mother.
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Yesterday, because grief creeps up on you.
Probably watching some poor abandoned cat or dog being nursed back to life by a stranger on YouTube.
Brendan Gleeson
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Listening to Iris DeMent singing Our Town, because of her voice and the truth of what she is singing about, which is that small towns and communities are dying all over.
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View profile →To follow your path and not worry about what to do too much; one thing leads to the next, and you wind up where you’re meant to be.
A magazine editor like Diana Vreeland.
Driving my convertible over the Bay Bridge when I was 18, listening to Thinking of You by Sister Sledge.
Being stuck in a project that’s not challenging me, or true to my nature.
Being hard on myself. I don’t want to pass that on to my daughters, so I’m trying to stop.
An Elizabeth Peyton painting.
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