It Is Important To Have A Woman

I Don't Like To Plan. Very Often, For Me, Acting Is Like Loving; It's Using The Muscle That You Use In Loving, In That Your Heart Feels Open. Physically, You Feel Open. And So Therefore Your Job Is To Enter, Open, And Listen. And See What Happens.

Sometimes When You Have To Go Into Something, Unless You're Gifted And Can Just Turn It On And Off Like A Jukebox, You Find Someplace Where There's Nothing Going On To Get Yourself Into Whatever State Your Character Is Entering Into.

I Am Optimistic. I Think That There Are A Lot Of Women Producing Things, Not Necessarily In The Studios. Actresses Are Putting Stuff Together. I Think There Are More Stories About Women Of Color [and] Older Women. But It Is Slim Pickings.

We Were Friends With Jonathan Demme. We Were All Down On The West Side Of New York, And I Think I Met Kurt Vonnegut Through Edith Demme. And Then I Was Lucky To Do Who Am I This Time? 1982, Which Was An Adaptation Of His Short Story That Jonathan Demme Directed With Chris Walken And I, And That Really Cemented The Friendship.

I Married Him [chris Sarandon] My Senior Year, And After I Graduated, He Went To The Long Wharf Theatre In New Haven, And I Tagged Along And Was Doing Some Local Modeling And Commercials And Things Like That. A Woman Named Jane Oliver, Who Handled Sylvester Stallone, Saw Chris At The Theater And Asked Him To Come In And Audition. We Went In And Auditioned - He Needed Someone To Read With Him. I Read With Him, And She Said, "well, Why Don't Both Of You Come Back In The Fall."