To get people emotionally involved in something intellectual and political is important.

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

Acting is really important to me, so I think it would be really hard for me to do something I didn't believe in.

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.

Being a mother has absolutely forced me. You have to write things down and have systems for all of it. And then you set up systems and you realize they don't work.

I'm pretty good at indulging myself. I'm about to go travel for a week. I like to get massaged, go into steam rooms. I take care of myself.