it felt a bit like woody allen's psychiatrist which is no this is what i do for a living.i get paid for this. but it was the great lesson of journalism as one of the reasons we have merited stories is that people like to tell and like to work out the moral lessons and everything else through the stories. when i was working on the times i tried to prove myself every now and then i would pick a city, a town, village at random in louisiana and just show up and say i'm going to find a story. at one point i went to louisiana in the sugarcane country and did a series of stories on the sugarcane workers and i realized what a rich there to tell it was. at this point i was still a last in my writer's days and i had read james once too often so i felt the stories read a little too much with literary pretensions but they were useful in getting the next stage of my life. i had gone to college and read somebody's book to ensure you have up front right now and is still a friend of mine, harry evans. he was then the young crusading editor of the sunday times of london. some of you know h

> rose: in real life, cruz can be tortured, obsessive, and driven, which was tough for director woody allenhooting a scene in one or two takes. you are a perfectionist. you want to try it again and again and again to get it right. >> cruz: yeah, i think i drove him a little bit crazy asking for more takes, because i need somebody to stop me. i will never find the moment to stop, say, "okay, it's enough. we have it." >> rose: that performance earned her an oscar last year for best supporting actress, the first time a spanish actress has ever won an academy award. >> cruz: i still can't believe that i won the oscar last year, because the way i grew up, and just to dream about becoming an actress and making a living out of that, sounded like science fiction in my environment. you know, i come from a family where we had just what we needed to survive, so to dream about this type of job was crazy. >> rose: what qualities in you do you think most served getting where you are now? >> cruz: maybe something that has been my best friend and my worst enemy at times, which is how stubborn i can be. and

in the recent woody allen film, we have this talented daughter of new orleans.re in a long time. a long time. >> reporter: it has been a long time since patricia clarkson walked the halls of o.perry walker high school in new orleans. >> hi. ( applause ) >> reporter: when she returned with us this fall, it was a home coming. >> yes, that's me. with our big bs on. >> reporter: to the place where she first fell in love with acting, 35 years ago. >> this is me in the play room. look there i am. i was 15. i look the same. i love you. >> reporter: it was also a reunion with a drama teacher who first inspired her. did you really think she would go as far as she has? >> she really wanted to act. i mean it wasn't that she wanted to be a star necessarily but she wanted to act. >> reporter: and act she has. building an impressive resume, not as a star necessarily. >> what happened to your head. >> reporter: but turning minor roles into memorable ones. >> did something happen between you and frank. >> reporter: like the fair weather friend in far from heaven. >> i've dreame