I just loved Bette Davis and the fact that I had a chance to work with her [on the 1979 TV movie Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter] was momentous.

Never in my life have I ever even thought about anything else [ being anything other than an actress].

You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death.

Bette Davis had very strong opinions and was not afraid to express them. She wasn't afraid of anything that I ever saw. And she was so funny. She's just funny and she was laughing all the time.

I think I have the only parents in the world who would not have said something against become an actress.

all creative writers need a certain amount of time when they're creating something where nobody should criticize them at all - at all. Even if the criticism is valid or good, they should just shut up, and let that person create. Because at a certain point you have to make it your own - not the world's, but your own.

I love independent filmmaking. I don't agree with a lot of it, but that's the point.