If a young woman is looking at the landscape of Hollywood, what she sees is almost only challenges.
It’s okay to change your mind. About a feeling, a person, a promise of love.
My sister is bold, independent, and not afraid to wear overalls. Some of her first words as a child were “that’s not fair,” and she’s been committed to social justice ever since. She’s my hero.
We both followed our hearts and had no choice but to hurt each other deeply.
At a brunch potluck, I realize that I do, in fact, hate everybody.
When someone anonymous tells me I’m fat, that’s not a person to me. If they’re not going to acknowledge me as a person, I’m certainly not going to acknowledge them as a person.
I’ve always had a talent for recognizing when I am in a moment worth being nostalgic for.
The people accusing me of being productive don’t know how hard it is for me to just bend my elbow sometimes.
Don’t put yourself in situations you’d like to run away from. But when you run, run back to yourself.
My shape reminds me a lot of my grandmother, whom I was really close to. She died when I was 13, and we have a really similar body type, the squat New England woman who can roll out dough and bring in your lawnmower. That’s kind of the vibe of my body, and I’m into it.
I just don’t want to be around people who don’t hate everything in their life right now.
It’s interesting how we often can’t see the ways in which we are being strong – like, you can’t be aware of what you’re doing that’s tough and brave at the time that you’re doing it because if you knew that it was brave, then you’d be scared.
Guys warning girls not to fall in love with them is so truly douchey that it should have a higher success rate.
When I write I’m never really thinking about themes or the universal.
You know, when I first started making online videos, there were a lot of filmmakers I befriended who were doing it too.
I think that people in the phase between being someone’s kid and being someone’s parent have always been uniquely narcissistic, but that social media and Twitter and LiveJournal make it really easy to navel-gaze in a way that you’ve never been able to before.
I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to have experts in those areas giving me the brain space as a writer and director is huge.
I’d love to write something for a male protagonist. That’s sort of the next frontier for me. I think it’d be really amazing to write the kind of parts that I love for women but for a guy.
If you’re writing, you’re starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it’s for other people – that comes in later.
I should do the things that make me feel cool and smart. As I get older, I’m realizing more and more that it doesn’t really matter if I’m good at it, it just matters that I try. My own effort, my own willingness, are becoming what’s appealing to me.