I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.

What I think is new is the wealth of roles for actual women in television and in film. That's what I think is revolutionary and evolutionary.

Having an education is invaluable.

I want roles that challenge people to question where they are in life.

Honestly, I'm always aware of the political implications of the movies that I make.

I have a couple of girlfriends who are like healing. We take care of each other. They know when I need to be taken care of.

I find myself more and more interested only in roles which move the world forward.

Being a mother has absolutely forced me. You have to write things down and have systems for all of it. And then you set up systems and you realize they don't work.

To get people emotionally involved in something intellectual and political is important.

A lot of actresses are doing incredible work right now, playing real women, complicated women. I don't feel despairing at all. And I'm more looking with hope for something fascinating.

I'm 37 and I was told recently I was too old to play the lover of a man who was 55. It was astonishing to me. It made me feel bad, and then it made me feel angry, and then it made me laugh.

The media—stenographers to power.

-Oh yes? Can you identify yourself?-Certainly. I'd know me anywhere.

You better keep your lane on this race of reaching out for our dreams and goals

Love: Two minds without a single thought.

I am a proud member of the LGBT community and could never bear the idea that someone could say I was closeted.

Danger Mouse is now working on a bunch of other records, translating his ideas about remixing into all sorts of other projects.

My dear girl, you don't consent to an abduction! You consent to an elopement, and I knew you wouldn't do that.

Heterosexual marriage is the heart of our civilization.

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

When I was a little girl you used to learn to sew all the holes in things, darning socks, but nobody mends things anymore.