People in independent film have a passion; they're not in it for the money.

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.

When I went to my parents I was at the University of Wisconsin, and I just couldn't wait anymore to go be an actress.

Of course, much easier to do a film when you're doing an extremely emotional part than it is doing it onstage over and over especially.

I only watch my movies that I make once, so I can just see how it hangs together, but after that, I don't watch them again. A lot of people have disappeared from Earth that you've worked with, and they make me sort of sad once in a while, and there's really no necessity for me to watch them. I've made them, and it's on film and that's that.

A Woman Under the Influence was my favorite. I loved doing that. And it was challenging.

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.