The critics mostly review the budgets when they go to see a big-budget movie. They are out to get a big-budget movie. On the other hand, if they review a picture that is done as a graduate thesis by some college film student for $25,000, it is almost sure to be admired and respected.

I'd been acting since I was a teenager. I'd come to the point where I was writing my own movies of the week for TV. That was fun.

There's a whole beautiful world out there, and it was like riding a magic carpet, getting to know exotic, faraway places.

We scuba dived in the Red Sea, the Pacific and the Indian oceans. We lived in Bali and India.

I love wild, baroque, slightly excessive theatrical ideas, and because television needs so much material, there's a chance to get some of those odd ideas done.

I learned to act reactively very well because those were the sorts of roles I was given for 20 years. It was hard to break out of that typecasting.