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To a girl we were mean to in first grade.
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Anyone whose party I said I’d go to and didn’t turn up. I can get quite socially anxious at times.
My wife, just in case I’ve done something wrong.
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My 13-year-old self, for all the resentment.
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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.
A magazine editor like Diana Vreeland.
Making films exactly how I wanted.
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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