I Don't Do Damsel In Distress Very

We Are Supposed To Be Liberated In America But If Our President [george W. Bush] Had His Way, We Wouldn't Be Educated About Sex At All. Every Woman Would Have Six Children And We Wouldn't Be Able To Have Abortions.

Different Things Work For Different People. One Thing I've Realized, Though, Is That The Work That I've Done On Myself Outside Of My Work As An Actress Has Really Allowed Me To Open Up My Mind. I Think I Understand My Emotional State And My Complexities Now In A Much Clearer Way, And I Can Put Them To Rest In A Way That There's Almost A Catharsis That Happens Through The Work, Where I Can Do It And Then Find Myself Again.

There Are People In America Who Are Absolutely Desperate Right Now, Who Have No Means To Support Their Families, Who Have No Opportunities To Better Themselves Or Their Education - And They're Not That Different From The Farmers And Working-class People That I Visited When I Went To Kenya With Oxfam.

Growing Up I Never Got Into Comic Books At All. I Didn't Have Any Inspiration For It.

I Don't Know Necessarily That I Would Produce Under My Own Company Right Now. Producing Is Not Something That I'm Thinking About. Directing Is Something That I Will Be Doing Very Shortly, Trying To Figure Out What To Get My Hands On. And I Can't Imagine Writing A Script And Wanting To Direct It And Not Having A Producing Credit, Because I Would Want To Have A Big Chunk Of Power On That End, If I Wrote Something.