Even if you've gone through an average childhood, you have girlfriends who get pregnant and then have to choose whether or not to have a child. And this stuff certainly makes you think about what you're taking on. I certainly want to have children, but I could never do it until I felt I loved myself enough, and wanted to bring someone into the world because I had some kind of security.

I'd never done nudity in a movie; I've never sort of condoned it for myself, but David Lynch wanted it, and I was completely comfortable with it because that love story was so protected. There's never a moment where you feel anything is exploited.

What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?

I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.

Nick Сage and I can't make love in movie? That's scary. And our hero? Arnold Schwarzenegger? Using a body as a shield against bullets? Hey - the world's a big place, and people get away with what they get away with, but to attack David Lynch for doing things I've seen in many movies, that's weird.

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.

If my career were a hairstyle, it would be helmet-head.