So many directors are solely focused on their own success in Hollywood and multimillion dollar budgets and deals.

When you're a woman in your 40s, it's not the best time to do films, because there really aren't that many roles. Then you reach 50 and there are more roles again. Mother parts.

Men are allowed to get older and women are not.

I did the occasional odd film, like Endless Love.

I got an agent and went up for the part of my first film, Five Gates to Hell.

Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.

They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice!