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A few nights ago I went to a Hollywood screening of a small independent film made by Sally Kirkland, an old friend of mine who also did terrific job acting in it. There were other actors in it and they were all terrific.

Basically, independent film doesn't exist anymore. It does if you have two or three stars in your film, but it's just very difficult.

There's plenty of great independent films to do, but you can't support yourself making independent film as an actress.

In the early '90s when the American independent movie started, it held personal vision as a premium. That was brilliant timing.

I came out of independent film, that's my roots.

Independent film is for actors that love to act.

In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene.

I did a film which was considered an independent movie with Dustin Hoffman and Andy Garcia called Confidence, and that's the type of film I was willing to take a chance on that because of the caliber of people involved with the film.