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.

Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes.

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.

I knew you had to go in and audition and maybe they'd hire you, and that's where you start. I had a good understanding about press: that it's the actor's responsibility to publicize his or her films.

You can hardly tell where the computer models finish and the real dinosaurs begin

You don't have to run away from life your whole life. You can really live. You can change. And you can be an agent of change.

I do think my mother was a bit overprotective, not in any sordid way, but just normally. She certainly might say to me, "You know, Laura, I don't have a good feeling about that guy. I don't know if I want you to go out with him."