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

If I knew that, I'd fall in love over and over again. Hearts aren't supposed to be mended. If you fall in love and it doesn't work out, you get a broken heart. What comes out of that will make you a better lover and partner next time.

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

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

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.

I only got to be able to act, because I gave myself a job as a producer.

In the '80s, I can't say that Amy and I were aware of an independent film community. We could only get a certain amount of money for our pictures, which made them low budget movies, but they were distributed through studios.