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"So now I feel I'm lucky in the respect that I can sort of pick a little more carefully, which is tricky because as a black actress, there aren't that many roles to pick from."
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"I think we should put the same weight now on the co-factors as we have on HIV."
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"I've been solo since 1996, so I've been doing it for a while now."
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"I'm not worried. I'm just so grateful to be in the position that I'm in. I'm just going with the flow right now, and I think my album will come together quite nicely because I think everybody is on the same page."
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"I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on short stories or novels, and I find the long short story ideal for adaptation."
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"The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we're creating now, we're pollinating the universe."
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"So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done."
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"Things aren't much wilder now, I don't think, than they were back then. Of course I just read about all the goings-on now. Ha."
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"They're hit writers. They're gonna write me a hit whether I wanted it or not you know? I could have put out a single a year ago with the Neptunes and maybe been writing now on top but that was not the path that I chose."
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"Now, I'm getting a little older, got more responsibility, I don't need to be depressed."
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"Oh, if I had only known then what I know now, I would have stopped it last year when I was still young."
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"Which is not to discount everything I've done in my past; everything I have learned tremendously from."
Past
"Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning."
Woman
"So now I feel I'm lucky in the respect that I can sort of pick a little more carefully, which is tricky because as a black actress, there aren't that many roles to pick from."
Now
"For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like."
Movies
"That's double-edged: it's amazing that they're bringing me in and showing people new ideas, and at the same time it's a little hard because seventy percent of the time or even higher I'm not going to get those roles."
Time
"And I can relate to that, because I went to an all white school, so I knew what that was like. And it was hard at the time, but anything that's difficult you learn from, don't you?"
Time
"Which is why I felt I was truly blessed this year, with leads in two nice films, and also the luxury of being able to do a studio film and an independent afterwards was fantastic."
Being
"We filmed one scene on the beach and there was definitely weird energy around, and we were followed around by a white owl to several different locations, and little things like that, or certain mishaps would happen and you'd have to wonder what that was about."
Beach
"When you work on a movie, you just have no idea how it's going to come out; you hope it's good, but you don't really know, and you don't see it until about six or nine months afterward, and I saw it and was pretty pleased."
Work
"Even befor doing this film, I've always been interested in mythology."
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