The exchange by e-mail is more intimate than conversation - you allow yourself to say things you otherwise wouldn't.
“The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet.”
“I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some elements of myself in different roles. Sometimes, I show one side of myself and then completely conceal the other.”