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I think being a movie star is about whether an audience can watch you and care about you.

If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being.

What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind of shell, non? It was what made me famous and got me women. But it wasn't real.

Hollywood and film portray who we are as a people and what we value as a culture.

I think, especially in pop culture, we're brought up to think that a normal pop star is this pretty, well-kept-together girl.

Isn't that the definition of a star? Someone who can get a film made?

Our culture is so celebrity-obsessed that for individuals to show they matter, they need to display their intimacy to fame.

I think pop culture underestimates people. The message is, 'Being yourself is the worst thing you could possibly be.' But people are still attracted to it.

We're into this barrage of pop culture - you know, TV, movies, the Internet. We become creatures that we've made up, made of certain different flotsam from pop culture and certain different personas that are in style.

Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.