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.

I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.

There are two ways to be cool: One is to be disinterested and make it seem like you must be doing something much more interesting than everybody else if you are this disinterested. The other is to be extremely interested. You are not trying to please anyone, but you are really invested are really focused.

I said to Ramona [my daughter] once ... you should never look yourself up on the Internet. It's something I've learned.

I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have the power to help get the movies that I think are important made.

I didn't think at all about my body until after I stopped nursing. When I was nursing, my body was my daughter's, I didn't even think about it. Then I finished nursing, and I was kind of like "Oh, huh, wow, my body's so different."

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