The truth was that, you know, there was no reason to send me to Shattuck Military School. But it was a disciplinarian school.

Women are just more oriented toward feelings - and I don't mean that in a negative way. But with a male actor and a male director, the emotional exploration can only go so far. With a female director, you can end up exploring so many more depths.

We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us.

After Civil Rights, it was very awkward for whites and blacks. We didn't know how to talk to each other.