You Never Know How People Are Going

I Ask You, How Would You Like Your Mom, Your Wife, Your Daughter To Spend $100,000 To Go To Harvard Or Some State School, And Go Out Into The Workplace, And You Know She's Great, And Men Are Getting Paid $200 Per Week More Than Her? Would That Piss You Off? What If You Lost Your Job And You Stay Home Crippled While She Goes Out, And She Thinks She's Going To Get A Good Job, But Someone Male With The Same Level Of Experience And The Same Level Of Education Gets Paid More Than Her? You're Going To Get Pissed. Until You Walk A Mile In Someone Else's Shoes, I Don't Want To Hear It.

Anything Involving The Camera, You're Passionate About. Because There's No Movies Without It.

I Never Went In Thinking, "you're An African-american Woman, So You're Never Going To Win." I Was Just In Career Doing Beauty Pageants For The Experience, And To Show My Brains And Talent And Help Break Stereotypes. It Wasn't Like, "oh, I'll Become A Star. I'm Beautiful." I Never Thought I Was Pretty. I Couldn't Even Put On Eyelashes Or Makeup. When You Come From An Environment That's Military, And They Don't Stress That Topic Of Aesthetics Or Beauty Pageants And Makeup, There Are A Lot Of Things You Just Don't Have That City Girls Have.

My Mother Really Wanted Me To Be In Possibly A Beauty Pageant, Not Only For If I Could Win, But It Helped Improve My Self-image Because Of Trauma In My Childhood And Other Issues.

Sex, Action, Special Effects, And Violence Sell.