There's something grueling but very appealing about rough, to-the-bone material in a low budget context. There's less between you and the material. There are less people. There is less time. There's often less technology. You have to concentrate very intensely, and you jump in a little deeper because there's nothing in your way... but there are challenges.

With big, emotional roles it's very easy, especially if you've grown up in the American school of acting, to exploit your own pain. You have to be careful about that, because 9 times out of 10, your pain is not appropriate to the character.

To be too knowing is a downfall.

I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.

What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die - that's that.

I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.

I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.