Nobody recognized me or anything. Mostly, they wanted to help me get it right. They said they'd never seen a movie that accurately depicted their lives.

When I was shooting it, I was focusing on the pleasure. The scene when she's fucking that guy in the basement after they just met, I think you could cry through the whole scene, but why? That would be so boring. For me, when I was filming that scene, I was thinking, This is great—pleasure, pleasure, pleasure. I've been in prison for three years and I want to have sex with a man! But when I watch it now, I think, Oh, man, that's horrible, and I feel very disturbed by the sex.

Instead of apologizing, I wrote a little clarification of what I meant. I said that as important as it is to continue to honor all the people who were hurt and killed on 9/11, which was catastrophic—and which I just made an entire movie about—it's also equally important to be brave and patriotic enough to look at the ways we can change the way we live, in order to help what is undeniably a really bad situation in the world. And I'm proud of having said that.

With a movie like Sherrybaby, I love it, I'm proud of it, and I believe in it. But it's so much work to get a little movie like that made, to get it seen, to get it bought, to get it into theaters—it's almost like you have to be a producer. That makes me look at little independent movies more closely—like, do I really want to spend years, or not? I want people to see the movies I make. I'm not just acting for me.

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