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I can move my characters through it easily, because I understand the background; I've really studied it.
I don't take the roles home with me. I don't work that way. I don't understand that; I mean, I really don't when I hear that.
A lot of readers want characters to behave in a responsible way, or they want to understand the characters' dilemma and act, in a way, on their behalf.
In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And yet, they aren't ever free. They are not free because they are not free of the constrictions their art puts on them.
I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if it's supposed to be funny, it can be funny violent like the Home Alone stuff, but you have to really understand the tone of what you're doing and make the action work for that and for the character.
I don't feel under pressure to work because I love what I do and I wanted to do the projects that came my way.
You have to really work with someone who you think is going to be a collaborator, who you think understands what you want to do with this movie and how you want to do it.
This whole motherhood thing has really been, like, back to work from the get-go. It's sort of a balance.
