It is a different world than when I was growing up, and you started to just kind of maintain at thirty-five and just hope you can hope it together. People are a lot more vital than I am and doing all kinds of things and leading really important movements.

Now, Tim has been really, really busy, and it's been my job now to kind of deal with everything. And trying to figure out how we balance that, logistically it's a nightmare. But these little jobs make it much easier.

Just because I haven't yet had any project surgery, I'm not going to knock it, because I think women have the right to do whatever they want to their bodies that make them feel good about themselves.

It will be great when it's not such a big deal when a woman gets a good job.

Commercial theater, in its agenda to appeal to everybody, is often at the expense of the unique vision of the artist.

As far as working with Kanye and Solange, that was amazing. After 'Swing Lo Magellan', I needed a change. Getting to work in that capacity, writing for other people and working for other people as a writer and as a person who's not representing it as the front person or whatever - it's such a different perspective you can get.

As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking - personal creativity is required only rarely.

In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.