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.

You don't make a film because the audience is ready for it. You make a film because you have questions that are in your gut.

If you change the right mind, then that person can perhaps change the world.

I miss my mother very, very much.

It turns out that good actors can make anything believable.

Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly.

We crash into each other just so we can feel something.