When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.

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.

It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.

Sucker Punch' is a big girl power movie.

Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.

I generally make a sort of playlist for my iPod for whatever project I'm doing.