You're able to make a real difference. If a woman's able to step away financially, she's able to begin to do all the other work.

People don't think about the fact that when Barack Obama's parents had him it was illegal for them to be married in several states in this country. So if we start making it okay that certain people can marry and other people can't, it's a slippery slope of civil rights.

Sometimes it's hard for me to tell the difference between independent filmmaking and studio filmmaking because all the studios have these little independent satellites. It's interesting.

Because having your story told as a woman, as a person of color, as a lesbian, as a trans person, or as any member of any disenfranchised community, is sadly often still a radical idea. There is so much power in storytelling, and there is enormous power in inclusive storytelling, in inclusive representations.

Voting for [Donald] Trump Is Voting Against Ourselves.

I really love research. It's one of the things I love most about my job. I feel like it's me in the lab cooking up the character.

I grew up in New York, so I fell in love with acting on a stage, not in front of a camera.