I Remember Tucker Toomey Was

I Went From Doing Something That Was Very Original, Sort Of Subversive, And Specific In Its Voice - The Grinder - And Loved Every Minute Of It, But Having Done That, I Was Anxious To Do Something That Had More Broad Appeal And To Embrace The Good Things About That.

Helmut Newton Shot The Ad Campaign [for Bad Influence]. It's [james] Spader At The Top Of His Game, Right After Sex, Lies And Videotape. It's Sexy. It's Weird. It's Dark. The Characters Are Great.

['john F. Kennedy] Movie Is Based On A Massive Best-selling Book, Which Is Always Helpful. And Then The Script Was Amazing And Answered My Question, "why This? Why Now?" And The "why Now" Is That It's 50 Years Since The Assassination, And The Country Needs To Have And Will Have A Conversation About That. And The "why This" Is The Construct, Which I Think Is Sort Of Ingenious.

That Chemistry That We Had [with Fred Savage] Is Very, Very Hard To Find. We Were Lucky To Have Those 22 Episodes [of The Grinder]. I'm Unendingly Proud Of It.

[doctor Cukrowicz] Was Basically A Role Where You Have Two Diva Actresses - Maggie Smith And Natasha Richardson - And My Role Was To Say, "and Then What Happened? Tell Me More." But I Wanted To Do It Was Because A) It Was Tennessee Williams, A Great Writer, And B) It Was Richard Eyre, An Amazing Director. And To Work With Those Two Amazing Women!