It's probably not an accident that the films that I care about happen to be about issues that matter to me, stories that I want to tell. If you're going to spend two years of your life on something it has to matter to you, you have to be passionate about it.

With doing the movies I've done I don't think I would be half the person I am today.

... the one that has the worst effect for me was pot. I felt silly and giggly - I hate feeling like that.

I had never held a baby in my life. I was one of those women - people would say, "Do you want to hold my baby?" and I was like "No ... "

I was the punk outsider who nobody messed with. I was fearless. At 16, I graduated and moved out.

I'm having to do a lot to keep my clothes on and not be cast in girlfriend roles. Some women will say, "I don't want to be a man - I want the opportunities I can get as a woman." Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful and I'm not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent - just like there's a side of me that's vulgar and violent.

I never like being touched, ever. People used to say I held my breath when they were hugging me. I still do.