It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There's not a lot of love going around.

What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch.

Even when I think about the fact that energy can become matter and matter can become energy, I have a very strong feeling that there's something afterward.

My role models are Bettie Page and Mia Kirshner. Every day when Mia comes to work she raises the bar for us all.

By annihilating somebody else in whatever way, then that person feels that they also have the ability to, then, restore the person.

In North America, people get a sense that something is really wrong in government and in our culture. There is a corruption, not only in politics, but of spirit as well, when people are so quick to be violent with one another. I think everybody would like to be able to find a solution to make things better. We have the desire to reform inside of us, and we get frustrated because we don't know how to change things, even if it comes to our own behavior. Sometimes you get frustrated because you don't know how to stop that thing that you know is either hurtful to yourself or someone else.

For me, running is about freedom. I find that the freer I feel, the faster I am.