I met my wife and, for the next ten years, we did no films at all. She did the first movie and then I did several after. My first movie was written by Tennessee Williams and directed by Kazan and was called Baby Doll.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I did not enter the industry to create a certain image. People happened to see me as the friend/sister/daughter next door. I like that association very much. It's close to what I am in real life. As for films, I just focus on the job.
I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids.
I was never interested in film. Never. I never even thought of it. I wasn't even a film buff, I didn't see many films ever.
Film actually is a very strange thing - you can fly in, get off the plane, and climb into bed with somebody you've never met - and that's weird!
I remember when I first met Katherine Bigelow for 'Zero Dark Thirty' - actually, we met for another movie, and that never got made, and then she called me and invited me to 'Zero Dark Thirty'.
I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn't born when I was making the film about the Brooklyn Bridge.
I met my husband while I was making a movie.
My films are completely new. I am not similar to anybody in the history of movies.
I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.
I had a normal life; we didn't meet movie stars. We lived in Texas where you had rollerskates, and if you got a bicycle, that was a very big gift.