I never stopped making pictures. There were times when more of my income was coming from other sources, and I had to devote more time to television and movies and records.

I love doing movies but I loved doing theatre just as much.

Yes, I would love to play one of the leads in one these movies and have all those challenges and deal with all those complications, but the business being what it is, there is a slot for me in these kinds of films, so I enjoy them, and I enjoy the people that I work with.

James Cameron has always been way ahead of the curve in terms of the use of technology in his movies.

I learned a lot about morality from fiction, from movies.

It's a good time to be making movies, despite the cynicism people have about Hollywood.

I love vampire movies. I think they are sexy.

On the last couple of movies I made - big-budget Hollywood movies - I really missed being able to create my own material.

And I discovered after a couple years that I really didn't miss making movies.

I pulled out of making movies in about '96 or '97.

Well, I took a sabbatical. I walked away from shooting movies because I couldn't handle the travel. I'm a single parent. I had young kids, and I found that keeping in touch with them from hotel rooms and airports wasn't working for me. So I stopped.

I just like the continue doing what I've been doing. A melange of funny, straight drama, television, movies, a little theater here and there wouldn't hurt. So if I can keep doing that, I'll be a very happy person.

We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.

I passed up a lot of work 'cause a lot of movies that may be out there right now I passed em up because there may have been a lot of cussin' in 'em.

I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt that people don't say things in life - they act, they do things. I always wanted my characters doing, rather than saying what they were doing - which was redundant.