Actress Kirsten Dunst is keen to turn her back on Hollywood and call New York home - because life is much easier for celebrities in the Big Apple. The "Spider-Man" star currently lives in Los Angeles but is considering selling her three-bedroom home and leaving Tinseltown for good.

Dunst, who recently spent time in rehab for an undisclosed issue, owns an apartment in New York's fashionable TriBeCa district, and now she's planning to renovate the property, so it can become her base. She tells America's Harper's Bazaar magazine, "I'm very hands-on. I'm not someone who hires someone to do their houses for them."

But Dunst admits she will halt her plans if she sees her personal life splashed all over the New York papers. She adds, "I'm not going to go there if what I do is written about. I'm very aware. I'm like an eagle eye. I'm not free as a bird (when I'm there), but I love to dance. And I literally have gone up to people and said, 'Did you just take my picture?' I have to protect myself."