It is not easy to grow old in this business, when you are a woman above all, in the cinema.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.
I got old the way that women who aren't actresses grow old.
I think that distributors and marketing companies realise that there are a huge number of women over 40 who want to go the cinema and see films about themselves. Women of my age don't want to be force-fed with stuff about 25-year-olds.
From now on, I approach the cinema as a business woman.
If you are a 19-year-old woman, there are very specific things that directors and the people in positions of power in the industry - who tend to be older men - are going to want you to be and do. They are not going to want some chatty, difficult, slightly spoilt girl.
Perhaps British TV companies don't want women my age on screen. I don't know.
It's been hard in entertainment as a 45-year-old woman to find jobs. They get fewer and far between if you're older, unless you're one of the few lucky ones who work constantly, like Meryl Streep.
It's hard for women at my age in Hollywood, but I'm not discouraged.
There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.
The cool thing is that, unlike film, the theatre roles for women get better and better as you get older.