I used to be terribly shy, so I was either shy or over the top, and I always had a difficult time.

Maybe you're better to play a villain just straight out.

It's always the script that's going to lure me. And I don't really care about the part.

When I look around the world, I don't see too many damsels in distress. If they're a damsel in distress, they're manipulating some guy to help them.

I used to be terribly shy, so I was either shy or over the top, and I always had a difficult time.

I guess it's a pretty common experience while making a movie. You have to let go of the result and just hang on to the experience and the process, where each role takes you to a different country, as it were: You're shipwrecked on this new island, you have no clothes, you have to figure out how you're going to live in this new character. All of that turns me on.

I think so many families are touched by illness and loss, and we kind of overprotect our children often, you know, we sanitize.