There are great rewards to that, obviously, but to [write a book] was to be freed of all of that. It didn't matter what anyone thought because it's what I thought. On the other hand, new horrors await because it's only you. Who are you really? What do you really feel? Freedom can be a terrifying thing. How long should this paragraph be? Or this chapter? What do I want to keep in and leave out? That's not dependent on the time or the rhythm of a movie - although, of course, what you discover is a book has its own rhythm, and a chapter has its own rhythm.
After so many years of making movies and television, was it strange to figure out what your "memoir voice" is? You're creating a character, like it or not. Who is that person and what is he like? What does his voice sound like? I'd like to think that what happened in my career is that the naturalism of my voice - or the truth of my voice - has emerged over time so as to be not that different from my spoken voice or my internal voice. But I also very quickly realized that the way that I tell stories in life is somewhat different, because I tend to make myself the butt of the joke. That's just my nature, and I found that being expressed in the book - not even deliberately, but it was just evolving in this way.
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