Every day the world begins again

"I was just a typical seventeen year-old. I wanted a summer job, I didn’t want to live at home, and I was very into being independent and living by my own means. Basically, my father suggested, “Maybe you want to go work at Sesame Place.” My sister had a friend whose family owned a boarding house in Princeton, New Jersey – so that was why I really went to do it. I was basically helping kids who were crying on the rides and cleaning up bathrooms and smiling a lot with everybody else who ran Sesame Place. I think Sesame Place really wasn’t part of an ambitious move – I was just a kid with a summer job. But I did meet people who I’ve continued to know all my life; who are all very successful in the film industry… Which is really kind of weird, that you’d go to this small town amusement park and be picking up cigarette butts with three other guys, and then 20 years later they’re all big shots in the film industry."