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 read the script of [Woman Under the Influence ] 50 times. And I thought about it. And then I did it.

I loved Bette Davis when I was little and when I was big and when I got old.

Every sacred cow in the business has to do with economics.

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.

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.