I Wouldn't Know A Good

When We Were Growing Up And Saw A Ray Harryhausen Movie, We Were Interested In How It Was Done. But Thank God We Got To Go Through The Magic Of Seeing It Before We Knew How It Was Done. You Were Able To Get This Beautiful, Pure, Visceral Response To Something Without Knowing Too Much About It.

Staring Girl I Once Knew A Girl Who Would Just Stand There And Stare. At Anyone Or Anything, She Seemed Not To Care She'd Stare At The Ground, She'd Stare At The Sky. She'd Stare At You For Hours, And You'd Never Know Why. But After Winning The Local Staring Contest, She Finally Gave Her Eyes A Well-deserved Rest.

I'm A Happy-go-lucky Manic-depressive. It Does Get Very Deep And Dark For Me, And It Gets Scary At Times When I Feel I Can't Pull Out Of It. But I Don't Consider Myself Negative-negative. I'm Positive-negative.

[childbirth] Is The Weirdest Thing I've Ever Seen. It's Like An 'alien' Movie. I Started Crying, It Was So Emotional ... I Was There In The Room But I Wasn't Planning On Doing Much. But Then I See This Blue Pinhead Come Out And I Think I Said To The Nurse, 'what The Hell Is That?' And Then It Turns Into This Round Red Thing In Seconds. It's Just Shocking.

There Was One Moment, And It Happened In School. I Had A Big Final Exam - We Were Supposed To Write A 20-page Report On This Book About Houdini. I Probably Would Have Loved Reading It, But I Didn't, So I Just Decided To Make A Little Super-8 Movie Based On It. I Tied Myself To The Railroad Tracks And All That. I Mean, This Is Kid Stuff, But It Impressed The Teacher, And I Got An A. And That Was Maybe My First Turning Point, When I Said, 'yeah, I Wouldn't Mind Being A Filmmaker.'