You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.

I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.

When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots,' and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not.

Discipline — both mental and physical — is crucial.

Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.

I don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way.