While I was doing these plays in the beginning, I wasn't getting paid. I thought of it more as a hobby. Then I realized how seriously a lot of these people took what they were doing

I remember seeing Bill Hurt in New York once. I talked to him on the phone around 1988 and that's about it. I was shooting in New York and somebody said Glenn Close came by the set

Debra Winger doesn't let anything interfere with her performance, which is the way it should be

Take characters that Nicholson or De Niro play: they're not always tough

The Big Chill is one of those things that everybody can identify with. Between eight characters, they can pick somebody who's somewhat like them

I was so exhausted after fighting for the project for five years, shooting it was like the Bataan Death March

Sometimes I think I'm real predictable to myself and other times... you always wonder, Is this really what I wanted to do? Did I make a mistake? Should I be doing something else?