I know that in life there will be sickness, devastation, disappointments, heartache - it's a given. What's not a given is the way you choose to get through it all. If you look hard enough, you can always find the bright side.

I totally believe in romance and love and all that.

Rashida Jones in Porter Edit May 18th, 2018 | photographed by Billy Kidd

The reason I got behind the camera was because I felt replaceable as an actress. You walk into a room, and they’ve already decided whether you’ve got the part based on your hair. There are people born to act, but I play parts which are just versions of me. Writing is more of a back and forth conversation. That, for me, feels better.

I think there’s just an inherent burden of being alive and being a woman. No man would ever admit that, but I think women know it, which is: You know more than men, you know more than most people you’re dealing with every day, and you know that’s it up to you to make things move forward, and you get paid half as much, but you just do it.

Rashida Jones photographed by Nadya Wasylko for Allure

It takes one person to say something, and at the time it's uncomfortable. People don't like to be challenged on the things that don't apply to them. They need to be pushed. When the Civil Rights Movement was happening and they polled white people across the country, 90% of them said they didn't think people should be marching. Progress is always this tiny, tiny minority feed — this tiny flame that needs a couple of bright people to keep it burning and carry it forward so other people feel comfortable using those words.

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