Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.

There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.

Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.

They were very considerate, I must say. Every time I felt I was about to slip out of these fingers and would yell for help, they'd let me down and re-organize things.

My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.

I think to have done 'Titanic' would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and happy and more liberated than I have ever been.

Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.