It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
One way of reading my life is that I have been in constant search for a father.
The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against.
All my books explore fatherhood. I look at what it means to have a big father figure at the centre: sometimes they're a good father, sometimes bad.
I never really had that father figure to look up to. I think that's the reason I'm so ambitious. I felt like I wasn't appreciated as a child so I wanted to prove my worth as an adult, as an actor.
With every year that passes, I get further away from my target audience, and while I've been happy to think of myself as a father figure to these kids, I'd be a little distressed to be thought of as a grandfather figure.
Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things.
I never knew my father. He'd disappeared from the scene before I was born, and I still have no idea who he is. Perhaps strangely, it's never bothered me; I certainly don't believe it's really affected me.
I'm always showing pictures off. I have to be careful who I show them to because of who I am, obviously, but I'm a proud father.
I never had a father figure so I never missed it.
I don't know how consciously anyone looks for a father figure.