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.

I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters.

We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.

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.

My major in college was Chinese Studies. It was very intentional.

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.

Sometimes I feel limited by people's perceptions of what I can and cannot do, or what I do or don't look like.