I traveled to Cuba with the intention of speaking with boxers who had turned down enormous offers to leave. When explaining my project to people, again and again I was met with amusement and skepticism.
My family's business was actually an amusement park in New Orleans. My grandfather had started that, and my grandmother was a dance maven in New Orleans. It was just the theatricality and the Mardi Gras and the pageantry that I fell in love with at an early age.
As a child, I seriously believed my family was going down the road to bankruptcy. I was denied virtually every popular trend, from heavily logoed Tommy Hilfiger windbreakers to amusement park season's passes.
My first job was at an amusement park in Virginia. It was the worst. I loved the park but once I'd worked there all the magic was gone from it. It just turned into a place I hated and I've never been there since.
To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't think is a good ride.
Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.
I'm trying all kinds of crazy stuff at house shows just for my own amusement and to see what the people are gonna do.
My bag is acting or getting into an amusing situation and then sharing my amusement.
When I go to places, I love going to all those kind of amusement parks and kind of cheesy things to do.
I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.
