My dad was kind of a pool shark and had a Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin thing going on. I've always been fascinated by the fifties because of him. There was a hip, cool, anything-goes atmosphere back then, but looking good was still a priority.

To me Polanski is one of the greats in terms of psychological horror. It's just hard to top him because he's so damn good at it.

The Victorian era is the sexiest age for me, but I also like a woman in a pair of jeans.

Jerry Bruckheimer really is an executive producer, who obviously is the most successful producer in the history of film and television.

L.A. is still such a fascinating place to me, so big and diverse. It's so spread out that you can go from Zuma to downtown and there's really like 10 different towns in between.

As much as they deny it, I think people want to be scared. It's a phenomenon, why people want to be scared when there is so much violence and craziness in the world. People still really enjoy being scared. It's a conundrum to me. It's hard to explain. It's an unconscious thing, really, why people like that so much.

I did a movie with Clint Eastwood and I knew I wasn't going to be able to 'out-man' him.