[on
Torch Song Trilogy (1988)] I'm happy that we made it. Is it everything I wanted it to be? Is anything ever? I fought with [director]
Paul Bogart because I had based the entire third act on a song by
Big Maybelle. When we went to make the movie, Paul refused to put it in the movie. We used a beautiful
Ella Fitzgerald recording of "This Time the Dream's on Me", which is very pretty, but it doesn't have that emotion. But to Paul, it did. It's life. I really am a theater person. That means you put something out there, and you let it go. Tomorrow night is a new performance.