I always feel like I want to work with people who raise my game, and I can do the same for them, and we can jump off the cliff together.

Sucker Punch' is a big girl power movie.

I'm fiercely protective of my privacy.

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.

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

I always think a good sports movie is emblematic in the same way that a great Greek tragedy really has a certain kind of structure, or a Shakespearean play if you're looking at a comedy or a tragedy, is that these are the heights and depths of human emotion.

I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.