I really have created a family. I work with the people I love I travel with them I make films with them and I'm in an office with them. So in a weird way – I know I haven't birthed a child – I feel that I'm a part of creating a family. It's a tribe. I love that word.
I grew up in a family that was multifaceted sexually oriented and pretty much open to everything. And because I was working my friends were all adults. I had a tough time going to different schools because people knew me from films and I was the fat child who got beaten up every day.
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When I did 'E.T. ' it sort of solidified the only family I know are these film crews. These gypsies. These filmmakers. That was the solidification and the clicking revelations of 'This is what I want to do with my life and this is where I'm going to survive.'