If I have something I like to forget, then I forget it.

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.

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.

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

I think that I was lucky to have that period of time [ like coming to New York] because everything was so exciting and new.

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.

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