Q 6

PLAYBOY: One of the nice things about becoming a star is the money you're making. Any plans for your movie-made fortune?

Rosanna Arquette: I have a production company and I'm going to start developing scripts for myself. I give a lot of money to charities--Ethiopia, the Southern Poverty Law Center, which works against the Ku Klux Klan, Tom Hayden's Campaign for Economic Democracy, and a physicians' group against nuclear war. I also help my family out a lot--my siblings are going to school. But, you know, the more money you make, the more you spend. My agents get ten percent. My manager gets another ten percent. Lawyers get money; accountants and the Government, too. By the time you count it all up, I end up with only about ten or, at best, 15 percent of what I make.

Q 7

PLAYBOY: Does it bug you that just about every director you've worked with has made an effort to show you topless?

Rosanna Arquette: Yeah. But I don't do that anymore, unless it's important to the script. Screen nudity was a real problem for me when I was with Steve. He hated to see me undresses in movies.

Q 8

PLAYBOY: Well, you certainly made an impression that way. Martin Scorsese confessed in print that he has long been obsessed with you. In a recent issue of Film Comment, he and writer Jay Cocks went on at length about the time they were staying at a house in the desert, writing a screen-play and fantasizing about you. Cocks described himself and Scorsese as "two obsessed guys far from home, dwelling on a vision of unbounded carnality." Do you see yourself as "unbounded carnality"?

Rosanna Arquette: No. He didn't mean it like that. Scorsese happened to have a part for me and he liked me as an actress. He's obsessed with me an actress, not as a body or a thing. I've got to make that very clear. He never tried to fuck me. He's not that kind of guy. He's very happily married.

Q 9

PLAYBOY: Something we haven't read about in the many recent articles about you is your outspoken views on current issues. For instance, you speak out in favor of maintaining legalized abortion. Have you ever had an abortion?

Rosanna Arquette: Well, as a matter of fact, yes. And my mother went to have an abortion when she was pregnant with me. I mean, she was on her way, and then the nurse told her to go out through the back door because the place got raided and the doctor got arrested because it was illegal. This was during the Fifties, when women used to go to these old buildings and someone would do it with a knife and a newspaper. I mean, some butcher. I've had two abortions: one when I was much younger and one two years ago. I was deeply involved with a man the second time. We made the decision together that it wasn't the right time for us to have a baby. It wasn't a pleasant experience. We were going to get married but the moment just wasn't right. The abortion ended up being OK, because I broke up with that person. So, you know, I wouldn't want to have the marriage break up and have a two-year-old running around.

Q 10

PLAYBOY: What kind of man do you find attractive?

Rosanna Arquette: First, a man who's secure with himself. Then, someone who's very creative: the crazy-genius type. I've always been with one. Also, eccentric and sensitive men. A man who can cry and not be ashamed of it. Men who love to be intimate and tell secrets. Before I turned 25, I was addicted to a Svengali type of man: an older man who knew everything, took complete care of me but never accepted me. The man I'm with now [record producer James Newton Howard] is nothing like that. We're best friends and, no matter what, we tell each other what's going on. I've known him for a long time. We were friends before we were lovers.

Q 11

PLAYBOY: Your relationship with Porcaro was different. The rumors are that he was the great love of your life but that he wasn't very supportive of your work; he wanted you to keep house. True?

Rosanna Arquette: He says that it isn't true anymore. But I don't know. I think we wanted different things. A man has to be really strong to deal with my career. Because, you know, I need a "wife," too. He wasn't terrible to me and we're still great friends. It's just that we both grew up. But, you know, I don't want to keep talking about my ex-relationship. We're really good friends and, in fact, my boyfriend, James, is one of his best friends. He's got a new life and he's really happy. He's straight and he's got a girlfriend and we're pals. End of story.

Q 12

PLAYBOY: Defend monogamy.

Rosanna Arquette: It's real important for me. I want a relationship where I can be very true. I've had the others--where my mate was not monogamous, while I was. That's awful. I never was a person who had one-night stands. People, probably readers of this magazine, may think, Oh, how sad for her. But I've never been laid in my life by someone I wasn't in love with--or at least had a deep friendship with. I've never made love to a stranger.