00:04When I started out working on girls it was really important to me to show not
00:08just sex but realistic depictions of sex. I just felt like when I started having
00:12sex I was like this is not what I was seeing in movies, this is not what I was
00:15seeing on television, this is a whole different animal and not necessarily in
00:18a great way. My biggest hope is just that we can move towards a reality where
00:27women's point of view when it comes to sex scenes is valued and it doesn't have
00:31to be idealistic and it doesn't have to be sort of like pleasing to a male
00:36viewer, it doesn't have to be pleasing to any viewer, it only has to be honest. I was
00:40raised by two artists and so I grew up surrounded by creativity and also the
00:44sense that creativity wasn't just essential to being human but that it was
00:47actually something that you could turn into a business. I really encourage
00:50artists I know especially female artists to ask for what they're worth and to ask
00:54for it in a clear way because then it removes this layer of resentment and
00:59anger and isolation that you may feel in the workplace every day because of how
01:03hard you're working and the lack of response and the fact is money is not what
01:08makes the world go round but money is one of the ways that we show people what
01:12their value is. The only way that any kind of notoriety or celebrity or just
01:17recognizability was going to be comfortable was if I found something useful to do
01:21with it. I've worked with Planned Parenthood for almost four years I feel
01:25really lucky to be able through both Planned Parenthood and the Planned
01:28Parenthood Action Fund to be able to promote their work on both the medical
01:32and political side of things. I've spent some time this year in 2016 on the road as
01:38a surrogate for Hillary Clinton talking about why I'm supporting her in this
01:42primary and I want to say what was really important to me was just talking to
01:46young women about voting. Leaving aside the issue of who you're voting for just I
01:49think so many of us have forgotten that engaging with electoral politics is not
01:54just a right but a privilege and something that we should do if we can do.
01:58Getting out and just reminding people that engaging politically is really
02:02exciting and vital and it's not just like the domain of white haired old men. So
02:07often especially women are told that their vulnerability is a weak spot or that
02:11they're not supposed to exhibit it whether it's at work or in relationships
02:15they're supposed to have some kind of like calm and cool facade and I just don't
02:18think that's true. I think there's something beautiful and tough about
02:22showing people who you are and what your emotional reality is like and not
02:27being afraid of what comes after. I think we can all benefit from being more
02:31emotionally honest with each other in every department of your life.
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