I was being taken around by a press agent at the Venice Film Festival at age 18. Was it fun? Sure. But it was a dangerous path to be walking on as far as having a substantive life. Because the casualty rate at the Venice Film Festival for 18-year-olds? High.
“It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.”
“I've never worked for the sake of working. There's probably enough crap out there for me not to add to it.”