People are always casting me for what they call my 'authority.
When I was 16, nobody else talked like me. Nobody else sounded like me.
I can't be a man. But I can embrace the head of a man, the intelligence of a man, the spirit of a man.
It really hit home that my parents felt as though they didn't have to worry anymore. They realized if you could win an Oscar, that was a good sign.
I aspired to be extremely sophisticated.
For a while, I thought, maybe I should direct, until I got to New York and saw the stupidity of that idea. If it's hard to get into acting, what is it like for a woman to become a director?