I'd love to teach a self-defense class for ladies, specifically about running away from psychos in masks chasing them with chainsaws.

There is a common, puritanical way that we look at things where, if it involves sexuality, somehow the women must be compromised. It's just chauvinistic to deny women their sexuality. It's about empowering. It comes down to choices. If the choices are available and they're making that choice, they're not being exploited.

I don't want to play into the perception that all women should look like fourteen year old boys. I don't want to add to that pressure for young girls. But in Hollywood, there is a constant pressure to look a certain way.

You have to do something else by 30 years old, if you haven't found another way to explore your own identity and make something of it.

Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the charming smile and say very little and be complacent and docile and sweet.

I can sit in front of the TV and watch an old romantic film and be transfixed.

I'm a big horror fan. I'm a genre fan. I like to make these movies. They're my favorite kinds of movies to make.