“Directing this film has been an act of survival,” Martin Donovan says, sitting in a Manhattan office on a warm June afternoon. “Directing a film was something I always wanted to do, something that seemed an inevitability in my development as an actor.

“I’m at an age where I thought, if I don’t make a film, I’ll die. It was the same at the time when I started acting.”

The film is “Collaborator,” opening in limited release Friday (7/6/12), in which Donovan plays playwright Robert Longfellow. (More…)