It's interesting to talk to my mom about her character in Wild at heart, because she sees her as a mother who's just trying to protect her baby from a bad boy. I think that's why it works so beautifully - she has conviction about what she's doing.

There are people on the ratings board and so froth who don't want certain scenes in the film. There are people who come up and say, "What graphic love scenes. I think, How can a love scene be graphic? Have you seen Total Recall? In this R-rated movie you see a man who you've seen being in love with and sleeping with this fabulous woman shoot her right through the head. "Consider this a divorce" is supposed to be the funniest line in the movie.

I had a good understating about press: that it's the actor's responsibility to publicize his or her films, that the press can be fun, that it's not about hyping yourself into stardom or trying to sell yourself as a hot ticket. I think a lot of young actors now are getting caught up in that.

I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on.

That's life - to turn each other on, to feel good, to feel in love.

I made a commitment to myself: that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference... It has to move people.

We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that