I loved the movies and I wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe. I thought she was so glamorous and everyone seemed to love her. I wanted to be like that and I told everyone I would be the next Marilyn Monroe.

I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world.

TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really challenging. You are learning the next day's lines while you are shooting today's scenes. I found courage I never realised I had. I hope to do more.

I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.

Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies.

There's an electrical thing about movies.

I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.

One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

I like to look like a person. It drives me crazy when you see women in movies playing teachers, and they have biceps. It totally takes me out of the movie. I start thinking, Wow, that actress playing this part really looks great!

I'm interested in doing movies I wouldn't normally be interested in doing.

On planes I always cry. Something about altitude, the lack of oxygen and the bad movies. I cried over a St. Bernard movie once on a plane. That was really embarrassing.

I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.

I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.

Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better.

I don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either.