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

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.

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.

Of course I would change anything if John Cassavetes said so - it's his script. But he was very easy about that.

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.

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