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There's a whole beautiful world out there, and it was like riding a magic carpet, getting to know exotic, faraway places.

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I'd been acting since I was a teenager. I'd come to the point where I was writing my own movies of the week for TV. That was fun.

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We scuba dived in the Red Sea, the Pacific and the Indian oceans. We lived in Bali and India.

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It's not the love affair I have with film, but television can be a playground for interesting ideas.

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I love wild, baroque, slightly excessive theatrical ideas, and because television needs so much material, there's a chance to get some of those odd ideas done.

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I learned to act reactively very well because those were the sorts of roles I was given for 20 years. It was hard to break out of that typecasting.

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I have more control of the material if I produce. I can be much more active in choosing the writer, shaping the script, casting and editing the film.

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I had always loved Haitian art, but I stumbled onto Haiti quite by accident. I went there on vacation after finishing a movie called 'The Delta Factor,' and I met lot of painters and fell in love with their folk art.

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I suppose I had a soulful quality. I was often cast as a wounded person, the 'sensitive' role.

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I decided I didn't want to have a totally public life. When the fan magazines started wanting to take pictures of me making sandwiches for my husband, I said no.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actress

Born: January 8th, 1942

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