I'm always researching ancient religions, and I was also raised Jehovah's Witness, so that kind of scarred me for life.

I just loved storytelling. That's what I thought I would end up doing. I thought I would probably go to school and end up writing for a magazine or something.

There's something about strength that I really admire, that I failed to see a lot of when I was growing up.

My dad was more, "Let's play chess. Read a book, you're stupid." He's more the intellectual type.

People love destroying mankind, for some strange reason. You make a movie about mankind's destruction, you're going to fill seats. People just love the idea. For a couple thousand years, we've been dreaming up how we're all going to disappear and fade away from this planet.

I do have a delicate side.

Whenever a female takes a strong stand for herself, the majority of the time they have to really, really narrow it down to being feminine and wearing dresses and just being lipstick chic.