I always feel I can play a role - just give me the time to do the preparation and I'll be it.

I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me.

I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.

You know how in high school you do these plays and people come up after the show and they're really excited for you? Well, that's what's happening to me right now.

When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll.

I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am.

One of the hugest ways that will make an impact, which is only in its infancy right now, is corporate accountability. Consumers at the buying point saying, 'Can you certify to me that this product is slavery-free?' And most cannot right now.