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I think that what 'Oz' did is it spawned a great generation of television production. But people know its place in television and just in great dramas. It's the foundation of my career. Most producers, show runners, directors, and casting directors put me in movies based on my performance in that show.

Well I think always, when you remake films, I always think the first one is most original, authentic.

You can be precious about something like 'Blair Witch' and say, 'How dare you approach it as a sequel or remake' or whatever, but its legacy was so tarnished by 'Book of Shadows' that someone had to come in and do something in the spirit of the original.

Every time you work, it's a new film, and generally when you work with auteurs, people that write and direct their films, there's always an originality.

It's really hard to make an original movie of any kind that succeeds in the theatrical market place, in the wide release market place.

I was obsessed with 'The Wizard of Oz.'

The movie wasn't really derived from Dark Shadows - they developed a whole new script for that particular one.

There's only a certain number of movies I'm going to get made, and it's important to me that they each be original somehow.

Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure.

I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I've spent my entire life trying to get over it.