I went to see 'The Piano' with Holly Hunter when I was in a Paula Vogel play, and I was just gone. I couldn't focus at all. It took that creative part of my brain with it so absolutely.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I fell in love with the piano. I knew it was me. I was dying to play.
From the time I could play the piano, I remember trying to write tunes. They were in my head, and I would just sit down and start noodling. Next thing I knew, I had written a melody.
I used to play the piano by listening to it - like Chopin pieces, when I was, like, a little kid - and then the minute my parents got me lessons to read music, I couldn't do it anymore.
My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it.
But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.
I had a vision of myself as a novelist because that was where I could be serious. I couldn't with music.
For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again.
I still have a passion for the music, which is such a beautiful thing. I still wake up in the middle of the night out of a dream and have a melody in my head, and run to my piano.
And I definitely have an affinity with the piano.
My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at home alone with my adorable grandmother who understood nothing I said. It was so boring that I stayed at the piano all day long, and that saved my life.
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