You don't do pictures because the audience is ready for them. You do them because there's something gnawing at you, something inside.

As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.

I just always try to find an interesting story and tell it well. That's a hard enough thing to do, whether it's a piece of fiction or it's a small piece of reality. I just look for good story.

I try not to think of actors as I'm writing because I think you do them a disservice by writing for things they've already done.

I was in a cult for thirty-four years. Everyone else could see it. I don’t know why I couldn’t.

You hear this story that we're all on the left, but when there's a demonstration, you count how many actors actually come out. If there's a half dozen, that would be a big day.

I was fired from my own television show, CBS's Family Law. It was the second time this had happened in my career, the first being when I was fired from The Facts of Life. I had been grateful to work in TV for so long but had always been chasing a career as a feature writer-director and had completely failed.