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.

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

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

On every movie I’ve done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don’t envy them, at all.

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.

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 met Steve McQueen once. Well, met isn't really the right word.