There Is A Safe Spot

I Was Teaching Magic At Nyu When I Was 16.

All Of The [bob] Fosse-esque Movements And Point Of View Informed Years And Years Of What I Would Do.

In Movies, Storytelling And Every Single Art Form, We're Creating Wonder. You're Starting With A Blank Page And Creating Something That Doesn't Exist.

A Few Years Later, When I Was Still Going To These Meetings, I Was Also "second-acting" Every Broadway Show [walking In With The Crowd After Intermission]. I Snuck In To See Grease With John Travolta In Kind Of A Secondary Part And Adrienne Barbeau Playing Rizzo, Into Pippin, Hung Out With Ben Vereen And Bob Fosse. It Was An Amazing Time For A Teenager.

When The Time Came To Say, "mom, I Want To Do This As A Job," It Was Brutal. She Was Really Against It. There Were Screaming Matches. Some People Are Shut Down By That And Get Defeated By It, And Other People Are Empowered By The Negativity. My Father Kind Of Encouraged Me Through That.