There Is So Much In The World

I Just Love, I Love, I Love Movies.

What I Consider A Good Part For A Woman And What Some Other Hollywood People Think Are Good Women's Parts Are Very Different. I Don't' Want To Play The Supportive Girlfriend Who Has Nine Scenes And Just Loves That Man, Maybe Cheats On Him In One Scene But Will Always Be There, And I Mean - Give Me A Break. You'll Be Offered The "lead" In This New Hot Film With Such-and-such A-list Director, "a Fabulous Part" - A Fabulous Part? A Fabulous Part Is A Character With A Soul, Who Starts Here And Goes To There, You Know? There Aren't Many Of Those.

Virginia Mayo Had Kind Of A Small Role In The Best Years Of Our Lives, But You Got The Whole Character In One Scene. Where Are Those Parts? I Was Talking To Somebody About Great Actors: Morgan Freeman's Name Came Up, Forest Whitaker, Denzel Washington. And I Realized, There're No Black Actresses. Where's There A Black Actress Who's Been Extremely Successful In The Past 10 Years?

In Smooth Talk It Was A Much More Intuitive Search - I Was Only 17 At The Time, And I Wasn't Aware, As Women Are When They Get A Little Older, That There's Always A Side Of A Woman That Likes A Man From The Other Side Of The Tracks. We All Have An Attraction To What's Different From Us.

I Made A Commitment To Myself: That I Wanted To Be An Actress, And I Wanted To Do Films That Make A Difference. Whether It Makes Someone Laugh, Or It Has A Moral To The Story - It Doesn't Have To Be An Ethical Film, But It Has To Move People. If It Doesn't Excite Me, It's Not Worth Doing - It's Better To Work On Myself And My Own Life And Wait Until Another Great Thing Comes Along.