My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting.

I want to always find new ways of reinventing myself.

I never say never, but I haven't been given the quality of script to compel me to go on television.

Helen Mirren is someone that I have really admired ever since I saw her in Excalibur. That was the first thing I said to her. "I loved you as Morgan Le Fay."

I actually enjoy working with green screen, because I can imagine all that stuff happening, and I really cut my teeth on a movie I made called "Adaptation" where I had to imagine four-page dialogue scenes with my twin brother, who was nothing more than a tennis ball and a gas stand.

I always see America as really belonging to the Native Americans. Even though I'm American, I still feel like a visitor in my own country.

Every great story seems to begin with a snake.