Cate Blanchett is generally willing to indulge in chit-chat. If she’s a guest on your show, she will school you about your American ignorance on the worth of Vegemite, she’ll share her vigorous youthful hatred of plastic bags, and she’ll tell you how she’s thinking about gardening. But, while patience is a virtue, it is not a bottomless one. So despite host Stephen Colbert’s attempts to play philosopher on The Late Show on Friday night, Blanchett got right to the point.

This explains why we did not get a lengthy and nuanced conversation about morality and what goodness or kindness means in a world that trends toward the awful from the host and his guest.

Instead, we got the following exchange:

“Cate Blanchett, what is your moral compass? Where does kindness and humanity sit in a brutal world? Because those are important questions right now,” Colbert inquired.

“In my vagina,” Blanchett responded.

No follow-up questions needed. A rewatch of the moment in which Blanchett adjusts her voice into a nasally whine to deliver the concise answer in question may, however, be in order. If only all morality was as clear-cut as Blanchett’s utter certainty in the virtue of her vagina; well, philosophy would be even more dead than the returns on that liberal arts degree.

Elsewhere in Blanchett’s recent Late Show appearance, the actress—who is currently starring in The Present on the New York theater scene—discussed the cinematic result of the year’s best paparazzi shots from the set of Ocean’s 8. Making a comedic killing out of the frustrating state of women in Hollywood, Blanchett joked that the reason Ocean’s 8 literally fails to measure up to Ocean’s 11 numerically is because, “There’s only eight women working in Hollywood.”

Yes, and if Blanchett’s recent artistic output tells us anything, she is actually all eight of them.