Directing is mystifying. It's a long, long, skid on an icy road, and you do the best you can trying to stay on the road... If you're still here when you come out of the spin, it's a relief. But you've got to have the terror if you're going to do anything worthwhile.

Anything that's got Stephan Elliott directing it is going to be interesting, to say the least.

I don't know that a political climate - as long as it's still a free country - makes much difference in the film world.

Things come in waves, and I'm always more interested in places like, for instance, Chicago, where people don't follow fashion. They're not galloping past your window on the way to the latest anything. They're living their lives. You do a play, they come and see it and say, 'That's nice', and then they go home.

Officiating is trying to do your absolute best with what you've got.

If I'm producing, I'm not acting, and it's such a long road to get anything off the ground.