I wasn't allowed to date in high school.
American high schools have physically imprisoned young people, stripped them of civil liberties and fed them a diet of p.c. pap.
We were shooting this movie called "Hardball," with Keanu Reeves. We shot in the city, and I just remember I couldn't really do too much. At 13 or 14, you couldn't go out to any nightlife.
I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college.
I don't care about the drinking, I just want to be able to go hang out and not have to worry about being too young.
When I was a junior, boys were allowed to come visit me at the house. We could sit on the porch until about 8 o'clock at night; that's when it started getting dark. That was it.
My parents were really encouraging of me doing theater, but the one thing they did do was say, 'You're not allowed to do film or television in high school.'
The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
