I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
I think drug movies free the director to make intense films.
I didn't like some of the movies that were coming into me.
So, you need to balance it out with bigger and smaller movies.
You could just do independent movies, but I like bigger kind of studio movies, at least some of them.
The independent-minded movies - it's always an uphill battle to get them made and seen. You do what you can, and go out there after and try to tell people about it, but at the end of the day, that's all you can do.
Barbara Stanwyck movies drove me nuts, like 'Ball of Fire' and 'Double Indemnity.' I used to go cuckoo when I would see those films.
I probably haven't even seen ten of the films I've done. I don't get a joy out of it, and I don't go to the movies.
I didn't go to Ivy League schools. I dropped out of college to go into movies.
I like all of John Carpenter's movies. 'The Thing' is my favorite.
I made a conscious effort to focus on television so I could stay in Los Angeles, so I wasn't on a location all over the world doing movies.
I'm not unashamed to say that I like movies that make me verklempt.
The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.
Movies were very important. The art-form of the 20th century.
I'm such a fan girl when it comes to movies, TV and sci-fi, sometimes I can't believe I actually get to be in them.
I pulled out of making movies in about '96 or '97.
And I discovered after a couple years that I really didn't miss making movies.
I'm a single parent, and I just found that it was too difficult to manage raising my kids and doing the traveling involved in making movies. So I took a little bit of a break. And the little bit of a break turned into a longer break, and then I found...
On the last couple of movies I made - big-budget Hollywood movies - I really missed being able to create my own material.
There are fans of some of the old movies that'll mention those, and there's people that have little kids that'll look at me and say, 'Wow, I just watched 'Honey, I Shrunk the Kids' 35,000 times, and here you are!'
The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.
