I knew I would never be cast as the pretty girl.

I'm really open to everything.

Our society doesn't want to help girls like that [in Black Snake Moan]. They just want to use them.

I think I'm better at playing difficult than I am at being normal. And to me that's something I'm working on now. I'm not really that difficult or complex a person, so it's interesting to me that it's just so much harder for me to play an everygirl.

Well, I think most people understand that there's a big difference between who you are and who, you know, you play.

The movies I made early on may not have been great, but they were all commercially successful.

I'm incredibly naive.