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I eventually became an actor, starting with doing stand-up comedy in New York and then theater wherever they would let me. Finally, I moved out here to Los Angeles and got on a show.

When I was 18, I joined the Screen Actors Guild, and after college I came to New York.

I was one of the first women producers in Hollywood.

I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975.

I wanted to be a New York City cop before I became an actor.

I was a film student. I became an actor, but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally.

I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.

I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living.

I was an original member of the Actors' Studio.