When you're doing martial arts, you feel like you can master certain skills and be so much more in control of who you are, so that really appealed to me.

What attracted me to A Perfect Getaway was that I sorta played a girlfriend role for, you know, 85 percent of the film. That was really interesting to me, because I'd never really played a girlfriend before.

I'm very into the japanese sensibility. Oversize coats and baggy trousers.

I love the training, learning the stunts, doing them. I love feeling that power - doing things you could never actually do in life - like flying and doing backflips in the air!

I feel like movie stars don't have many friends at all. They have acquaintances.

I feel that the connection with children and mothers is so strong in places where there are not so many 'things' to get in the way, no electronic distraction devices, no high-tech baby equipment, just a mother carrying her little one everywhere, sharing a family bed and having the help of all the other women around to raise the baby.

When you're doing martial arts, you feel like you can master certain skills and be so much more in control of who you are, so that really appealed to me.