Diane Keaton on ‘Morning Glory'

A: I don’t watch them very often. I watch CNN. I can’t stop watching CNN. It’s a problem. I guess I’m more interested in national and international news, and not so much in local news or celebrity news. I mean, I’m fascinated by celebrity shows and interviews, but it’s a slippery slope. If I allowed myself to go there, I’d probably never recover. I’d be wanting to catch up on Charlie Sheen or Lindsay Lohan every five minutes.

Q: Did you identify with this character on any personal level?

A: I loved her. She’s tenacious and persevering and never gives up. My idea about her was she probably started out as more of a straight news anchor, but as the show’s ratings declined, she sold out. Nobody wants to lose their job, so she was only too willing to try anything. Even though she might be kind of a jerk to work with, she’ll get out there in a stupid tutu, if that’s what it takes to keep her job. I like that.

Q: Talk about working with Harrison Ford.

A: Can you believe we’d never even met or crossed paths before? We were pretty much meeting for the first time. We’re kind of polar opposites, which really worked well in terms of these two characters. I think it was a good stroke of casting. I’m more yackety-yak, chatty-chatty, all over the place, and he’s … not. He’d look at me like, “What the hell?” We had a lot of fun. I really enjoyed torturing him like that. (She laughs.)

Q: Did you draw on any of your own experiences to portray this relationship? Have you ever had to work with someone you didn’t like? How did you deal with it and get past it?

A: I can’t really say anything about that, because I’ve never had that problem. (She laughs.) Wait for my autobiography.

Q: Are you writing one?

A: I’m working on a memoir, but the writing process is slow for me. I’m basing it on my mother’s journals and my own, so it’s more personal, I guess, mainly about my mother and me. She wrote 85 journals during her life, but I never saw them until after she passed away a couple of years ago.

Q: Have you always kept journals or diaries?

A: I used to write fairly consistently, but not so much since the kids (Dexter, 15, and Duke, 10). I guess the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. I’m not really a writer, but neither was my mother. This was just our way of expressing ourselves.

Q: The longer you’re at this, is it harder to keep finding roles that challenge you in new ways?

A: I don’t think of my roles as being the same, even though they might appear that way to the audience. That’s the problem. I often wonder if people think, “I’ve been seeing her forever. Enough already.” For me, each experience is different. What keeps me from ever getting bored are the people I get to work with. I’m shooting a movie now with Kevin Kline and that’s another illuminating experience. I mean, there’s no one else in the world quite like Kevin Kline, you know? It’s an honor and a privilege to get to know so many fantastic people. It’s amazing to have had all these different adventures in my life.