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I know people think that I always play these characters who are in control and can chop someone's head off with a look.

I've gotten into two fights since I've begun studying the martial arts, and each time, I was worried I'd kill the guy. One of my teachers always told me I had good power but bad control.

I'm very fond of doing movies where men fight over me. I don't get to do enough.

It's so weird that I play this woman who pretty much deals with violence on a daily basis, and I'm such a wimp in who I am.

In movies, it's so easy to have this 'boom,' to kill, and I think that's inhumane.

I can't go and shoot people in the back of the head because It's a kids' movie, which is actually quite a good test because you haven't got the overt threat of a knife in the face.

I wanted to work on this central problem of killing. How you go about killing. Now, in the film I had to kill my children - well, I didn't want to get that far.

When my daughter asks, 'What do you do?', every movie I have a different answer. As she grows, she wants more explanations.

Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.

The first thing I learned about weapons is respect, and that carries into movies as well. If you're on set and you're dealing with weapons, live or not, you respect the weapon; you know how to handle it appropriately.