It's the best honor when someone wants to use as their professional title the name of a character that you portrayed.

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

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

I tell young actresses today who are looking to get into films, "First of all, you are marginalized by the color of your skin." I tell actresses, "If you're too tall, if you're too fat, you're not going to work. I don't care how talented you are." It's a business, and sex sells. Sex, action, special effects, and violence sell. Yes, you can have art films about the triumph of the human spirit and all of that, but you'll have it done with a big-budget icon with a $20 million salary.

My grandfather was the first feminist in my life. He taught me if a woman can do something, a man will respect her.

There are just certain realities about our world and I just happen to be creative within it.

I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.