In this country, the only way a minority can get anything done is to make a little noise.

If you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would some day become communist. . . . I, a socialist, think that we should strive toward a socialist society, all the way to communism.

Studios weren't banging on my door to offer me parts... And I thought, well how am I ever going to make movies that speak to my heart and to my values?

As is my way, when I start something that I've put off doing, I always start with the hardest form. So I started with Ashtanga.

I knew that my newfound activism and feminism was going to improve my acting, because I was seeing things not just in very narrow, individual, kind of Freudian terms, but seeing them in a much broader, societal way that was going to deepen and enrich my talent.

Physical fitness is a three-legged stool: strength, aerobic capacity, and flexibility.

"Strong" to people means "real." It means you believe that's a person who exists, as opposed to some two-dimensional depiction of women.