When I left my Catholic school, I was around 10 or 11 years old, and it started to unravel for me there. Kids pick up on things if you're interested and inquisitive. I was seeing things that were not in line with what I'd been taught about Jesus. It didn't jive with me.
I'm not sure if my parents had me because they loved me, or because they wanted someone to watch their other children.
For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was.
My mom has a diary entry or something where I wrote, "I think Steven Tyler is my father." I had the same feelings for Todd Rundgren, who raised me as his daughter. I would go to sleep at night and wake up at like 6 in the morning and creep up the little steps to the tower where he would be on his computer. I would just sit there.
If you had asked me when I was little, like, 'Imagine you were on Broadway,' I'd be like, 'Yeah, right.'
You know how it is with fathers, you never escape the idea that maybe after all they're right.
My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.
As a kid, I never thought I'd be an actress. Never, ever, ever, no way. I was really shy - bordering on social disorder shy - and I was really academic.
