You know, I do projects that I really care about. I hope I'll stand by that until the day I die!

The size of a studio film lets you see technology in a way that you wouldn't on an independent film, like the gadgets and the angles and all that.

It's all about the director for me; we have to click. It's a trust thing. I'll say I'm ready to let down my walls. I'll cry for you as long as you need. But you're going to have to hug me afterwards.

What's exciting about watching a movie, when it's finished, is you sometimes you don't recognize yourself, and that's when I'm really proud.

You don't always have to look in the distance for what's going on over there, when you actually see what's right in front of you.

On an independent film, you really learn about pace. You have so little time to do things, that you really have to know your scenes.

For a woman, body image is always a palpable thing. Weirdly, for me, the only time I don't care is when I'm in character.

I'm not someone who doesn't want to see the films, but I like to see them as an end product when the whole nuance of the character is put together.

When I go home to England, my friends all make fun of me for sounding American.

That's the great thing about the 'Sin City' movies. Each little slot is incredibly meaningful, and each character has their own moment.

If people want to criticize a performance, that I understand. I think that's important.

Thought is what we start from: the simple, intimate, immediate datum. Matter is the inferred thing, the mystery.

I sit in my treeI sing like the birdsMy beak is my penMy songs are my poems.

Give me the purple smoke, rising higher and higher into my brain until I dance with the purple butterflies.” -Girl with the violet eyes.

If you want to do your duty properly, you should do just a little more than that.

Character, I think, is the single most important thing in fiction. You might read a book once for its interesting plot—but not twice.

It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward.

I had to try to figure out what it would be like to do things for the first time, almost as if you're a child.

Those are only rumors of suffering. Real suffering has a face and a smell. It lasts in the most intense form no matter what you drape over it. And it knows your name.

I remember saying in college that I would never do commercials.

Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change.