Any sympathy won for Aileen Wuornos based on a lie is not sympathy at all. The question is, can we have sympathy for the circumstances of someone's life? That's what I was interested in.

Superhero movies are so famous because of the metaphor that they trigger in one's self about who you could be if things were different.

My fantasy is that I could wake up looking amazing, that I could be strong and stop the bully, but that everybody would love me, too. I think that's intrinsic to fantasy - fantasy is fantasy.

I have a real pet peeve for women who play damaged characters but don't look damaged.

There's an idea that action movies are more attractive to one gender than the other or different kinds of people or whatever. The truth is action is not any different than any other part of a story.

New kinds of heroics need to be celebrated - like love, thoughtfulness, forgiveness, diplomacy - or we're not going to get there.

I guess the whole world is made up of things coming together and things falling apart,

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man's existence.

Whatever the emotion is, I have learned over the years to give it space, which is also why I love acting.

A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provided they come close together.

Dancing and acting satisfy me in different ways.

Both analog and digital developments have intensified the viral nature of sonic culture.

Everything is overflowing with Gods.

Life had become a reproduction: it was not the real thing.