I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.

a woman who struggles to recover from a brutal attack and sets out on a dark, psychological and physical journey for revenge and justice.

I think anybody over 30 plays parents because it happens in your thirties and so that's kind of a natural progression. But I'm definitely drawn to it. It's probably the most intense, passionate thing that happens to you as you get older.

By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.

People say as a woman actor your career is over at 40. But then they told me I would never work again after I was 16.

I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.

There are 400 billion stars out there, just in our galaxy alone. If just one out of a million of those had planets, and just one in a million of those had life, and just one out of a million of those had intelligent life, there would be literally millions of civilizations out there.