What About Good Small Roles For Women?

It Would Be Great To Make A Movie That Had The Style Of A Great '30s Film Or A Movie Of David's Lynch Or Some Other Director I Love That Could Also Make Money, Because That Would Say To The Corporation, "yes, You Can Make Money And Still Do Art." But It's Tricky.

I Feel That Movies Are Gifts That Come To You, And There Are No Accidents In What You End Up Doing.

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.

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?

I'd Never Done Nudity In A Movie; I've Never Sort Of Condoned It For Myself, But David Lynch Wanted It, And I Was Completely Comfortable With It Because That Love Story Was So Protected. There's Never A Moment Where You Feel Anything Is Exploited.