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I think the culture today is very, very different from what it was in the '60s, and I feel lucky that I grew up at a time when I had these very strong female role models.

There are some strong female performers out there. But the industry's pre-occupation with the packaging of how a woman looks has gone completely the other way, back to almost the 60s, early 70s.

The '70s was a decade that was crammed with prominent women science fiction writers, and a lot of women made their debut in that decade or really came to prominence.

I'm here to be an actor who wants to be remembered for her roles and her films rather than her looks.

I think of myself more as a character actor than that ingenue leading lady, who started out something like Michelle Pfeiffer, or Jessica Lange. I'm a bit quirkier than that.

There are not a lot of places for an actor to explore what it's like to be a woman in her 60s. There aren't any films about it and there very few TV series about it.

The Seventies seemed like this really open time. There were a lot of strong women characters deciding what kind of artists they wanted to be.

The primary job for women in Hollywood is still super-attractive actress. That is the most high-profile women's job in Hollywood.

I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.

Old Hollywood glamour just seems, well, old.