Each time you do a film you gain a lot of experience and build a visual resume where people get to know who you are.

I think people will have great conversations about religions, women's sexuality, gender issues and gay issues.

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

Let's start working towards wellness, a healing in our community, a healing in relationships, so male and female can finally sit down and understand that that young boy or young girl saw behavior exhibited by their parents that was negative and abusive and they're going to pass it on.

Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then.

Driving a cab is not really a nurturing type of relationship. You take people and they tip you, they may not tip you, you don't know their names, they don't care about you, you don't care about them.

I never thought I was pretty. I couldn't even put on eyelashes or makeup.