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I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.

Truthfully, I don't know how those special effects people do it.

For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made.

Whenever I see pointless use of special effects, I reach for something else.

I don't really think too much about special effects because that's not really something I can clearly visualize, so I leave that to the pros.

I found it to be more challenging to be in a huge effects movie, because a lot of the things aren't there. You have to trust the director and react to nothing.

I've done some effects shots. I've done some compositing. And in 'Just Like Heaven' did a lot of, like, motion control and things like that. But never done, like, computer-generated imagery in action.

Walking down the red carpet, suddenly I felt very special and different. All the flashlights from cameras and requesting voices from the media, the scene, it was just like what I remembered seeing on TV or a movie when I was a little girl - the scene only when movie stars appeared.

I did some pretty crazy stuff that I never thought I would do, for the sake of a movie, like surfing in eight-foot waves in pitch-black darkness, where I can't see anything. That still haunts me, kind of, in my nightmares, but it was worth it, it was fun.