(On her character on The Truman Show (1998)): Well the thing that was interesting was that we sort of did these back stories about these characters and where they were and what was going on with them. And when the movie picks up, Hanna Gill, who plays Meryl Burbank, is aware of the fact that she is losing her influence over Truman. He`s not happy at home. He`s beginning to get agitated. He`s beginning to think of things outside the house, and she can feel that she is losing her power. So consequently the smile gets bigger and bigger and the desperation, that is why there is that intense undertow to her. Because she knows she is losing it.
- Laura LinneyMany of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
- Adam JonesBaseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.
- Allan GurganusA good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don`t mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it`s a big book, there has to be more than one undertow.
- Alyson Mike