We cut a few corners and brought the picture in under budget by $25,000, so Paramount let us go back to Boston with a small crew to shoot some additional footage.

Howard Minsky had gotten the script to her agent prior to my involvement.

I thought we were making a nice little movie. That's how it was regarded by everyone else, too.

Do you remember a scene with Ryan and Ali playing in the snow? Well, that was improvised.

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

Nature is very cruel. It is much riskier to love any living being than not. I'm painfully aware that even my little dog is a walking bundle of mortality. I'm painfully aware he's going to pass.

Acting in Los Angeles can be very isolating because you either have a job or you don't have a job - and if you don't have a job, it's all about getting out of your house. It sucks to sit around waiting. That's death.

When I got out of the hospital, it was one of those classic things - you're looking death in the eye, and it changes you. I thought, I ought to go back on the road.