What makes these creatures so awful is the feeling that they can use us in ways too horrible to imagine-and yet, we DO imagine them, which makes it worse than seeing it.

I'd be more interested in doing a smaller, character driven thing, rather than another action picture.

Don't depend on other people's encouragement. It's never enough and never when you need it.

In the past, 'Avatar' would have won because Oscar voters loved to hand out awards to big productions, like 'Ben-Hur.' Today it's fashionable to give the Oscar to a small movie that nobody saw.

I have a very commercial appetite. I don't like to do high-brow things.

There's a lot of conning as part of our society, I think.

I'm no Ripley. I had doubts that I could play her as strongly as she had to be played, but I must say that it was fun exploring that side of myself. Women don't get to do that very often.