The pressure for an actress to look good and be skeletally thin is insane and unrealistic and it's a subject I've been fascinated by.

I'm pretty sure a lot of directors would be thrilled to cast age appropriate roles. I am.

It was fun to create characters who had truth to them but were also made up so as not to completely offend!

I work hard and support myself.

The celebrity culture demands a camera-ready-at-all-times look or else the photo is circulated in a demeaning headline.

If you are the writer/director especially, no one cares more about the project than you do. You know it in and out. You created it. So always listen to input but don't be afraid to veto and fight decisions that you know instinctively are wrong.

I wouldn't say that I was an actress. I tried to be an actress. I really didn't have the gift.