Meg Ryan uses 'fierce' maternal instincts in her directorial debut

Hollywood actress Meg Ryan goes behind the camera for her directorial debut "Ithaca", a World War II drama for which she said she used her maternal instincts in telling the story. The movie, based on William Saroyan's novel "The Human Comedy", follows a teenager who wants to help his widowed mother financially by getting a job as a messenger. "I felt like it really is, in its deepest part of DNA, a story that I felt should be told from a maternal point of view," Ryan said in an interview.