Now on Friday nights if I want to go hang out with friends I go hang out with friends. If I want to stay in and be in the hot tub and have people over to watch movies I do that.

And what I like about it is it makes me happy and I think it makes a lot of people happy to go to the movies and to not think about the problems of the day or the problems of tomorrow or the yesterday and just go on for the ride and have the fun of losing oneself in a fantasy.

I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser.

They say I can open movies and that's nice in that it puts into people's minds that women can do it. It's not just Kevin Costner not just Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not just the guys.

I think it's better to be involved in one or two movies a year.

If people are constantly reading about you and you're overexposed they've got no reason to go see your movies. Also it's not pleasant or nice to have your privacy invaded.

I will make action movies I think for a few more years another five years.

I grew up watching all these crazy movies European movies and stuff and I guess that I always laughed at things that were a little more offbeat.

Movies make you immortal and ageless.

I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt really. In the movies now so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama there's no device It's just about a human being.