When you're directing, I feel like I'm playing all the parts, without the make-up. I really get into the heads of the characters.

Every movie is wildly different. So many of the problems are the same, but they take on different guises.

I love working with actors. I love to see what they're going to do. There's just something very thrilling and satisfying with being involved with something, all the way through the process [making movie].

I produced six movies with Amy Robinson since the very early 80s.

I've always been schizophrenic; I've never been interested in limiting myself.

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

New York means so much to people. If you're inclined to leave the nest, New York is where most people think they have to go, and it's been that way since the first skyscraper.