I call myself a playmaker sometimes - but that's just a word. I don't feel like I have to have a title or a job description.

My God, it transformed me. My life changed.

There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.

Some people become dullards, but as children we are all creative. It's in the programming, the socialization, that we lose our sense of play.

I've had male executives say that my lead character was unlikable because she slept with a lot of guys.

I saw bubbling lava, and at the same moment I saw a reflection of a certain kind of inner turmoil. Because at the moment I looked into that crater, I slipped, and a large piece of volcanic rock took a hole out of my leg. The scar is still there 20, 30 years later. But it's one of those things that reminds you of the kind of risk or the kind of moment in order to push yourself.

I call myself a playmaker sometimes - but that's just a word. I don't feel like I have to have a title or a job description.