Well, thank you and that's for them, but for me, I want to look back at a body of work where when you do the research and you explore the psyche of a character, where she's been, where she is and where she's going.

Me and my sisters were taught that if our eyes worked and our legs worked, we were beautiful. We had so many kids in our family that if we all got in front of the mirror and were ashamed of browns and golds and yellows and whites, and we believed what society told us - that the darker people were less attractive and the lighter ones were prettier - we would have had sibling murders. My family, being half-rural and half-military, just came from a different place.

I was kind of a bouncy kid. I used to roller-skate into the sides of cars.

I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.

As I get older, it's a time to enjoy life.

Sex, action, special effects, and violence sell.

I consider myself conscious of how we're treated, and sometimes I can be a feminist.