Everyone Has A Different Approach,

My Mother Always Accused Me Of Being In Love With The Sound Of My Own Voice. When We Went On Road Trips, She'd Be Like, 'stop Singing. Be Quiet, You're Talking Just To Hear Yourself Speak.' It Was Probably True. I Like To Ramble On, Which Is Probably Why I'm Well Suited To Interviews. You Know, There's No Other Forum Where You're Literally Supposed To Sit Down And Just Talk For Hours About Yourself. I Love It.

It's Been Reinforced To Me, And It's A Little Cliche, But I've Learned That You Can't Make A Movie That Even Works, Much Less That's Good, Without Really Good Writing And Really Good Acting. That Lesson Has Led Me To Not Be Distracted, So Much, By The Other Stuff Going On In Filmmaking And To Focus On The Essence Of A Story, And The Words And The Events And The Way That Those Are Interpreted By The Actors. That Philosophy Has Taken Me To A Place That I Really Like.

Jen Came First, And Then They Wanted To Cast Somebody That Would... Kevin Liked The Idea Of Having A Kind Of The Ghost Of That Character Kind Of Haunt The Movie In A Way Throughout, By Having Raquel Look So Much Like Her. And Also, It Was Sort Of Serendipity. I Mean, She Was Also The Best Actress. I Mean, As You Can See Raquel Has A Pretty Appealing, Engaging Kind Of Precocious, Sparkly Quality That's... It Was Just Luck Really That She Happened To The Film.

One Of The Differences Between Now And Then Is That The Idea Of Body Image Is A Much Bigger Issue Now. Back Then, Just Being Kind Of Heavy And Barrel-chested Passed For Heroic. Now, You Wouldn't Dare To Play A Hero Without A Lot Of Dieting And Various Specialised Abdomen Machines. But That Was One Of The Things Which Was Interesting About It And I Did Want To Portray Because There's Good And Bad.

My Mother Taught Public School, Went To Harvard And Then Got Her Master's There And Taught Fifth And Sixth Grade In A Public School. My Dad Had A More Working-class Lifestyle. He Didn't Go To College. He Was An Auto Mechanic And A Bartender And A Janitor At Harvard.