TERRY GROSS:

But that's a good thing, because it makes the movie even more interesting to think about the possibility of talking to somebody about it.

One of the many reasons why I'm on radio and not TV is that, when I'm listening, my face goes just slack, like this. When I was a kid and I would walk around lost in thought — and I was usually lost in one thought or another — strangers would come up to me and say, oh, dear, what's wrong? Are you lost?

And I would go, damn, no, I'm thinking. Like, what's your problem?

My kind of interview, the kind I do, is about the person I'm talking to. Now, I have listened to a lot of interviewers, like Marc Maron, who talk a lot about himself in the interview. And that's part of the reason why I listen, because I love hearing Marc Maron talk about himself.

But if I were to talk about myself a lot in my interviews, you would be hearing me, like, talk on and on about why I love Charles Laughton in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," and why I love Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd," and what it's like to be married to my husband, Francis.

And as great as that stuff is, it would get a little old.