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.

It's not the love affair I have with film, but television can be a playground for interesting ideas.

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.