I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.

I think of myself as a highly sexual creature.

I'd rather put on a pair of jeans and get on my Harley and act like a guy.

So I did that for a long time in my career, and I waited for parts to play myself just physically down a little bit. But I do feel like I'm at a place in my career now where I don't necessarily fret about that too much anymore.

Women are not allowed to be [complicated] in our society. We're comfortable seeing women as great mothers, and then we're comfortable seeing them as hookers, but there's no in-between.

The tone is so important to a film, and that tone can really make something fall or succeed.

At the end of the day, I'd much rather do a piece about people in a story that I find riveting and intriguing and moving, versus really carrying some kind of heavy political agenda on my sleeve. That's not who I am.