I have come close to producing films. But generally by the time they hit the screen, there's about 50 people with producer credits, so what's the point. I usually find scripts I like with no money attached and take them to producers that I know and try to raise finance.

How would you compare Polanski or Kubrick? I try not to do any comparisons.

Well, I think first it was rare for me to do anything that had any kind of a romantic note to it.

The only thing I won't do is theater.

A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello.

Television has changed. The very nature of it is not even television anymore.

I can't do anything else. So if this falls through, I'm screwed.