And I know when I was younger, and still, I always marvel at what I feel is different from what I'm told that I'm supposed to feel.
Everyone just kept saying that this was a really nice sort of elegant, classy, low-key, quality film festival. You keep hearing from the filmmaker community that it's filmmaker-friendly.
I thought I understood the story very well, because I've lived with it for so long. But movies change and take on a life of their own once they start to be made, and you have to keep your eye on the real ball, not the ball that's in your head.
I was fascinated that everybody in the story thinks that they're in the right.
In doing everything, from coming up with the ideas and putting them on paper till doing the final edits, you are always thinking the next three steps, you're always thinking what next, what next, what next?
In filmmaking you have to know: "I'm doing this but I'm going to there, so I have to film it in this way so that my transition is good, so that I get there."
In starting to learn about film festivals and what were good ones - 'cause there are five billion of them - it was just a really good East Coast festival. And I thought this little movie was an East Coast film.
It was a beautiful experience for her, the experience that she had that she confesses. It wasn't dirty and it wasn't horrible and wasn't shattering. It was a wonderful, liberating experience.
It's embarrassing, isn't it? It took me 15 years to make an 18-minute movie.
Nobody thinks that they're evil or bad, they think that they're doing the right thing.
So I wanted to explore all points of view of that, not just the girl's but his point of view as well. Only by directing it could I explore all the points of view.
So something about that touched me, obviously, when I was young and it just stayed with me. I'm always amazed by that, because my experience seems to be so much different than what I'm told, so much of the time.
The idea that we cause harm by doing what we perceive to be the right thing, that's another theme that interests me. Because most people don't intend to cause harm, they cause harm by doing the right thing - in their mind.
The price of self-empowerment is what I call it. Somebody who thinks outside the box.
The story is just about a girl who goes to a priest to confess that she had sex, in Ireland in 1940-something, and then the repercussions of that. I thought it was really powerful and moving.
You always have to keep thinking: "Where am I going?" Whereas acting, you're always thinking: "What am I doing?" You don't want to know where you're going, you want to be right where you are.
Andrew's Pretty in Pink costar Molly Ringwald was also on Broadway with Andrew, in the production of 'Love Letters'.
Andrew McCarthy has been in over forty movies.
Andrew McCarthy's hometown of Westfield, NJ, is also childhood home to actress Meryl Streep.
Andrew McCarthy had a serious drinking problem, but sobered up in the early '90s. During most of his scenes in Pretty in Pink and Weekend at Bernie's, Andrew was either drunk or hungover.
Andrew has worked with actor James Spader on three different films: 1986's Pretty in Pink, and the 1987 films Mannequin and Less Than Zero.
Andrew has a son named Sam with wife Carol Schneider. Sam was born in 2002.
Ended up marrying his college sweetheart in 1999, Carol Schneider, 20 years after they first dated.
When the ending to Pretty in Pink (1986) was re-shot, all of the principal actors had to be called back. Andrew McCarthy had already lost a substantial amount of weight and shaved his head for a new role in a New York play called "The Boys of Winter." Although he wore an auburn wig, he's noticeably more gaunt in the reshot scenes.
Andrew appeared in John Parr's "St. Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion)" music video.
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