I've joked that I would have either become schizophrenic or an actress, but as an actress you can do both.

I'm intrigued by films that have a singular vision behind them. A lot of studio movies have ten writers by the time they're done. You have a movie testing 200 times, making adjustments according to various people's opinions. It's difficult to have an undistilled vision.

The interesting thing with acting, actually, is that you get to be so many different people that you get to do so much research on so many different things that I've learned so much about brain surgery and about astrophysicist-type of things and traveling to amazing parts of the world.

Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.

I think the scariest thing to me is to think that somebody would only associate me with one character and that that's all that I would get to play.

I always had challenges when I was younger, because I looked so young but sounded older.

I always wanted to be one of those people who were good at many, many things, but from a very early age, I fell in love with acting.