Quotes

Making horror films are the best. I mean, what's more fun than fighting a crazy dude with an ax?

[working with a live rat on the set of The Hazing] The rats in my lap and he's kind of my pet at first and the rat really didn't want to sit in my lap, he just wanted to burrow himself into strange places. I think it's in the outtakes you can hear me screaming that the rat's trying to get into places. Use your imagination.

[starring in Nightmare Man] I was running around in my bra and panties with a crossbow and a shotgun. You know, it is very woman-empowering.

[advice for someone wanting to be a scream queen] Don't do it! (Laughs) God, become a stripper instead. It's more steady income.

[on wanting to direct] Half the time I'm working with these kids that are just off the boat, right out of film school, they don't know what they are doing ... So, I get involved and I'll go, 'If you do the shot this way it will look so much cooler.' I thought 'why don't I just do this myself?'

[on whether it would bother her to be pigeonholed as "that horror girl who will get naked"] Well, when a casting agent knows that you're open to doing nude scenes, it might get you a few more offers., but those aren't the sort of offers I usually follow up on. If you call me an actress who will get naked, fine. But I don't want to be the actress who's always undressed.

[on whether she gets nervous filming nude scenes] Not really. I mean, there's the one side that says, "Hey, you have a pretty nice body and people like to see that, so why not?" But of course there's still a vulnerability. I'm lucky to work with people who do the nude scenes properly, so I usually feel really comfortable.

[hardest part of acting in B-movies] Where should I start? No union, so people can really do whatever they want. Most of the writing sucks. You have to deal with providing your own clothes sometimes. (And) deal with the fact that you are only getting paid two hundred dollars a day to run around half naked with blood all over you. And you're shooting a film that should be shot in twenty-two days in two. Other that that, it's great.