I think to do a proper independent movie, in my experience, it takes 22 or 23 days to shoot. That was 'Party Girl' or 'House of Yes.' But now with the digital camera, the budgets have gotten smaller, and the days have gotten shorter.
Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.
I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.
I'm glad I'm Southern. I'm the Southerner who's very Southern in that she left to move to New York.
It's not really cool to be singled out.
It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.