By Andrew Hiransomboon

Much has been made of Alanis Morissette's participation in Dogma - too much, if you ask her. "I'm on screen for, like, three minutes," laughs the 25 year old Canadian-born singer. So to say, as has been said, that she "stars" (albeit following in George Burns' footsteps, as God) in the latest creation by wunderkind Kevin Smith - alongside the director, Ben Affleck, Salma Hayek, Chris Rock and George Carlin - is more than a bit of an exaggeration.

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Ms Morissette's involvement in Dogma is consistent with her personal philosophy, with an emphasis on free expression, personal growth, and the broadening of experience.

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Working with Kevin Smith was "an amazing experience," Ms Morissette says. "He wrote it and directed it and he's just all over that script and all throughout the movie, and that's what I love too, when people allow who they are to be expressed in what they create."

It certainly makes things easier when you have what she describes as a "mutual admiration society" with the director of a film you're in, though she admits that the whole acting thing to her is "an exercise in letting go".