As an actress, producer, director and mother, Rosanna Arquette excels. She also manages to perform each one of these tasks with unbridled fervor. Her roots are buried deep in the arts – her grandfather was a comedian; her father an actor; her mother an actress and poet – and she possesses the intrinsic characteristics of a true entertainer. A trait she shares with siblings Richmond, Alexis, David and Patricia. And quite noticeably – as evidenced by her performance in front of our camera today – with 14-year-old daughter Zoe Bleu, who will undoubtedly soon rock your world.

You’ve appeared in over 100 films and television programs. You’ve grown on film from young starlet to mature woman and actually covered that topic in your documentary Searching for Debra Winger. I’ve heard you are working on a new documentary now about the effects of womens’ hormones on their psychology…

On the hormonal shift, yes. My daughter coming into it on her end and me exiting it on the other end. Not that it’s happened yet, but it’s happening. I can feel my body changing.

And you found that a change of focus toward directing is what will prolong your career? Well the business has changed so much. I was just reading a book a friend gave me called, What Would Audrey Do, about Audrey Hepburn and you can see that things are so different today. The roles are different. Magazines, the Internet. Today it’s as if they just want to take you down. It’s all about humiliation. It’s all become about celebrity and no longer about art.