I like movies that challenge people to recognize different things.

As for action movies, I did Tarzan, and I'm also about to shoot Meltdown, which John Carpenter wrote.

I didn't know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to take my time with each role.

I just want to keep doing what I'm doing and hopefully people will watch my movies.

I haven't deliberately set out to play the blonde bombshell in my movies. In fact, it's probably been quite the opposite. After the success of The Mask, I wasn't offered all that many blonde bombshell parts, to be honest. I think people believed from the beginning that I could actually walk and talk at the same time.

You don't want to be photographed? You don't want to be known? Then you don't need to be out there peddling movies.

The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.

Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.

I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.

I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants.

I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises.

I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring.

And then we watched an amazing number of movies from the late '60s and '70s, which is my favorite time, and we studied their camera movements, their stocks, the way they lit stuff, the colors they used.

I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.