Hopefully what you do as an actor is strong enough and has enough of an impact that people get what you're trying to communicate.

I get so nervous. I happen to be socially awkward and shy. I spent a lot of my time as an adult not going places.

We live in a thinly veiled misogynistic society.

I take Wellbutrin because I'm afraid to go into stores. I'm afraid people are going to yell at me.

It's so normal for a teenager to dress in black -- and be real unhappy and stay in your room and say sarcastic things. How could something so normal be considered morbid?

I think that I need to work on being comfortable at being normal, everyday-ish on camera. Unlike a lot of actors, I think that's the thing that I'm not so comfortable with.

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