I'm in film school, so I really have to sock away my money for school, tuition, and so on, and I really don't have time.

I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.

I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.

I'm in film school, so I really have to sock away my money for school, tuition, and so on, and I really don't have time.

I'm still trying to do films about black women.

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

I wanted to be in film. I wanted to be a film student, possibly be a director or cinematographer, not an actor. That was my goal. I didn't believe I had the physical beauty that I'd seen projected and advertised in movies, in theater. It just wasn't for me.