My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.

I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first.

Every time I act in something, I learn something about what the director is doing. One feeds the other.

I'm being told it saves money to shoot in Toronto, because of tax benefits, the crews are cheaper, but what I save in the bottom line, I lose in a million other ways.

But at the same time, never having final cut before, I really learned an interesting thing for any studio executive who is reading this: that if a director has final cut, it's actually easier and more interesting to listen to notes.

Although there was a screenplay, the actors never knew what questions I was going to ask them, and all of my character's voice-over narration and scenes were added after the fact.

I'm in five guilds; that's a lot of dues to pay. So I have to keep on working.