“Most movies suck, even the independent ones. Hollywood is like baseball: Hit three good ones out of 10 and you're a Hall of Famer.”

“For some reason and I don't know why, but I don't think that I'm funny in California. So I always want to do my movies east somewhere.”

“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.”

“Why should you have to atone for making big movies?”

“What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.”

“I just feel like with independent movies... they're really free to do whatever they want. They're not afraid to make a statement about anything, and there's not a huge studio behind them making sure that everything is wholesome and politically correct and all that.”

“I always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad making art, making movies.”

“The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.”

“I think I took my eye off the ball. From about 2005, 2006, 2007, I was out of it. I thought I could oversee movies and have it done for me, so to speak.”