I have an internal protectiveness where it's like, if it comes to just me, as frightened as I am of losing someone I love or things going sour or simply being alone, there is a dark place in my brain where I'm like, It could happen and I'm okay, I'm prepared.

I am very much a seat-of-the-pants actor. I will prepare when I have to. But I like being unprepared.

It's a feeling without a lid, of what you would do, physically, verbally, to protect the one thing that is your greatest love.

I'm just going to stay single forever. I could never live with anybody ever again.

I'm 40 next year and I'm very well aware that where I am now, it becomes a bit of a wilderness for actresses.

That scene in 'The Purge' where my kids, Mary's kids, are in danger was really crazy for me, because I suddenly I have my methods as an actor, so I went to the place of 'If somebody came near my children, with bad intent?'

Does our culture have a need for violence? I don't know. I guess it's a personal thing.