There's a pattern of the pathway opening in a certain way. We stared thinking, there's so many wonderful films about civil rights movements, but there isn't even one yet about the women's movement? It's hard to capture because it's so sprawling, and it's an ideology.

Those stories weren't being written at all - stories about women's inner lives and outer activism. We've come miles and miles, but we still don't have an equal rights amendment yet. We don't have equal pay yet. There's a lot of blind misogyny that's not personal, but institutionalized. We still have work to do, but even just looking at those old Ms. Magazines is a cool thing to do - to see how daring they were. They just went right into the belly of the beast.

I'm not that big a fan of marriage as an institution, and I don't know why women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings.

Singing really oxygenates your blood. You stretch your lungs and take in much more air into them than before. It's really good for your health.

It's really fun working on this Marvel movie [ Spiderman]. The essentials of Aunt May are that she's helped raise Spiderman and she's his moral compass.

I find that protein wakes up my brain and gets me ready for the rest of my day.

I've just been really lucky to not be too much of a stereotype.