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I do not even like watching sex scenes in movies. I have a slight prudish side to me.

The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.

People called 28 Days and 28 Weeks zombie movies, and they are not! It is some sort of virus they are not dead.

All movies assault the viewer in one way or another.

The movies and the parts I am being offered are becoming better and better.

I always hated high-school shows and high-school movies, because they were always about the cool kids. It was always about dating and sex, and all the popular kids, and the good-looking kids. And the nerds were super-nerdy cartoons, with tape on their glasses. I never saw my people portrayed accurately.

Movies for adults sucked in the 1980s, and music for adults sucked even worse whether we are talking about Kathleen Turner flicks or Sting albums, the decade's non-teen culture has no staying power at all.

When I meet gay fans out and about, they are so great to talk to - and I am big on hugging, because I am from the Midwest. They are just so energetic and loving. I am proud to have those fans, and their support means a lot to me. I do not want just girls coming to my movies I want guys to come, too!

I guess maybe I try to make movies that are closer to real life than are many Hollywood movies. But I still try to stay within a commercial narrative, a contemporary American vernacular.

It is so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and TV, but there is laser pistols and superheroes and alien monsters involved. It is viable and mainstream.

My fans mean everything to me - especially the sisters! When you are on The View or you are doing movies and stuff, you are a little bit insulated. It means so much to me when a woman comes up to me and says, Sherri, you said what I feel. That just means so much to me to know that I have that support.

I will tell you what I really enjoy. We all go to the movies, we all watch television, we know what they are about, how they work. When the main character is a cop or a spy, it is very exciting, but I also very much enjoy when the main characters are nobodies - a trucker.

I like making sci-fi movies because I like watching sci-fi movies. I like watching horror. I like being in a horror movie. I am a fan. My perspective's a little different just because I get to participate as well as spectate.

I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I have stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from Serenity.

I have always fantasized about being on TV. And I was. Then I fantasized about being in the movies. What could be better than captain of a space ship? I get to ride horses, shoot guns, have adventures.

For movies to get greenlit solely based on the success of other movies that have a lot of women in them? It is so ridiculous to me.

I do sort of gravitate towards smaller, indie-type movies.

I think people like to see the lives of artists that are legends. They always go through the dark periods and I think just as humans we like to see that and them coming out of it. I love those kinds of movies.

When you are on your deathbed, you probably aren't counting the movies you've made.

I do not rehearse a lot. I try to keep it organic. Even in movies, the less I rehearse, the better I am.