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You can't rely on luck. I've had some stages in my career where I've said we're going to wing it, and we've always ended up in trouble.
I've been in situations before where something was going on, and that's the only way you can kinda cope with it is to write about it.
I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.
Writing a story is kind of like surfing, as opposed to the novel, where you use a GPS to get somewhere. With surfing, you kind of jump.
I'd somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed.
When you think about where are you going to find that big love of your life, you seldom think it's someone you already know. You think it's someone you're yet to meet.
It's always difficult to work out on location, away from home, but that's the actor's life. You go where the work is.
I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought and how he acted, and how he felt about what was going on around him. I felt the pressures that were on him. You can see what people were writing to him, how they were nudging him.
Every time an adult is going to write something for a teenager and you don't have, physically, a person who is that, you are always going to be a little off.
