My parents always kept us in the house. We weren't allowed to spend the night at other people's houses. We were sheltered kids.
All directors are control freaks and very obsessive. I get the feeling that directors as kids, they all have had a childhood with not too much contact with other kids. They constructed their own reality and they continue to do it. It's a funny breed, directors.
I didn't go to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I lived in books. I really was an observer of life.
I didn't really have many friends as a child.
My house was very strange. I didn't do things other kids did because my parents were very strict - I stayed at home, quiet in my room.
I was raised in a very sheltered, narrow environment.
[I had ] uneventful, though isolated childhood. Good, kind, stable parents.
I lived in a bubble as a kid.
Growing up in Chadds Ford, Pa., I shuttled between studio space in my parents' house and my grandfather's studio just up the hill. It was a solitary childhood, but I loved it.
