But I remember feeling as a producer I felt like the guy who called the caterer and got the band; I had to work the party while everybody else was having a good time.

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

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.

Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

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'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.