My memoir is about my time in film and the decision to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My memoir is being published by Beaufort Books and will be available fall of 2015. It's about my unusual life as a child actor and how I made the unpopular choice to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.
Much of my publishing life was consumed by the memoirs of movie stars - or by attempts to get them to write a memoir.
All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.
There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great.
I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people.
My autobiography was simply the story of my life.
I'm someone who has a singular goal in making films: I want to tell a story. There are certain stories that I want to tell. Hollywood's never really been the ultimate goal for me.
This is my one beef with Hollywood: It's great for movie sales, but they've created this fiction for us that, when you have a hard thing in your life, it's going to get fixed, and then your life will be awesome! Forever!
I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves!
I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own life.