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I was not great with my mother-in-law, who was a very gentle woman. I thought she would be an uninvited part of my life for ever, but she died early and I wished I had been more open and patient.
Every woman I dated before I met my wife, because I think I convinced too many people that they were the one, and they were not the one.
To strangers. Living in New York, I see individuals every day who are invisible to so many. I want to say sorry that so many of us think their pain and suffering is not our own.
I think I over-apologise as it is.
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.
Being on the cover of a magazine at 18 with the slogan: “Did she ruin The Godfather?”
An Elizabeth Peyton painting.
Being stuck in a project that’s not challenging me, or true to my nature.
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.
Driving my convertible over the Bay Bridge when I was 18, listening to Thinking of You by Sister Sledge.
David Arquette, Emily Mortimer, Robert Carlyle, Jenna Coleman, Harriet Walter, Felicity Jones
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