I say I'm a rebel. I'm continually fighting against [sexism]. I don't take parts because they're for the sexy girl. I take the sexy girl parts and try to give them something else and make them a character.

The feminist movement is often clouded with Gloria Steinem's perspective, but I feel like denying women their sexuality is just as chauvinistic.

I was working with real artists [in the Rum Diary], and that's difficult to do and very rare, in this industry, ironically.

For someone like me, who prefers to keep their life as private as possible, it was disconcerting to have to define so much about myself. I don't want to be labeled as one thing or another.

I didn't drop out of school, I placed out of it. I took correspondence courses and ended up graduating early. I did everything I could to get the hell out of there.

When you can find a strong character and a director that does want to protect the integrity of all characters, female and male, then you have a good deal.

When I run on the beach, it's always in slow motion. That's just how I roll.