Let's put it this way: If a raccoon can carry a movie, then they believe maybe even a woman can.

There's a reason Tony Stark makes fun of 'Thor,' and mentions 'Shakespeare' in the park in 'The Avengers.' It's great to play high drama and comedy alongside a modern story.

If I had created reality television I would have had a much greater influence, but then I would have had to KILL MYSELF.

When I read [the script] and saw that it was my fanboy wet dream of an Avengers script and that [Agent] Coulson was a big part of it, that was the great day for me. I just drove around the streets with the script in the other seat, giggling.

The first thing I ever thought of when I thought of Buffy , the movie, was the little...blonde girl who goes into a dark alley and gets killed, in every horror movie. The idea of Buffy was to subvert that idea, that image, and create someone who was a hero where she had always been a victim. That element of surprise ... genre-busting is very much at the heart of both the movie and the series.

Okay, uh, I'm lost. I'm angry. And I'm armed.

I'm a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion.