I am able to talk about my life in a way that helps other women - and men, but mostly women - understand their own life. I feel real proud of that.

A lot of things affect women differently than men, and women get left out.

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.

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?

Women don't make the decisions in the media. Even if you see women on camera, they have to answer to the person upstairs, which is mostly men. Women only hold 3% of the decision-making offices in the media.

I think the Internet and technology in general has changed everything. We can see it overseas even more with the Arab Spring and so forth.

I think what's happening in the world - there's nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast, and the patriarchy is wounded.