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I love a challenge. And I love defying limitation, gender stereotypes, and people's expectations of me as an actress.

I'm not the Hollywood type. I'm not going to pack up my bags and let me move to Hollywood and stuff like that.

Hollywood's never really been the ultimate goal for me.

My body looks like 30 but my face looks like 50. But I cannot walk bare-chested in the streets. I like to do these movies to challenge myself physically.

In Hollywood, if you have any success, you have this fear: What do you have to do to hang onto it?

The fashion I've acquired over the years is so sacred to me - from costumes to couture, high fashion to punk wear I've collected from my secret international hot spots. I keep everything in an enormous archive in Hollywood.

I guess I just always had this idea that I would go to Hollywood. I had the typical 'get up and go' attitude that you have to have in order to make the brave step into the big city.

I really don't feel like I'm in any kind of contest. Except, maybe, with myself. Just want to learn and create and grow. Get better all the time with these filmmaking tools. I don't expect perfection from myself. Just progress.

Bulking up for the Twilight films was one of the hardest things I've done... I had to give myself a lot of pep talks, as there was just so much gym time.

I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.