I love flawed female characters, duking it out.
I felt highly anxious in a way that I didn’t think other children were.
My uncle’s a lawyer and I remember going to see him in court and thinking, ‘That’s cool, too bad I could never be a lawyer.’
I’ve been a little haphazard about how nude I get, and the only thing that keeps me from getting anxious about it is that I’ve had complete control over it.
I quit acting when I was 11 because I was cast as a bouncing ball in ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ and I felt slighted and wounded.
I think romantic comedy, when done right, is my favorite genre. It’s just a genre that’s very human.
I am not a particularly political person, but, as a Tribeca resident, the commodification of September 11th is offensive to me.
You know, I always think of myself as sort of ready for every criticism.
There are so many reactions to art that make sense to me – but ‘ick’ means something.
I’d always loved movies, but it wasn’t some sort of desperate love of celluloid. It was literally like, “I want to write things, and I want people to see them more.”
I do think girls in their twenties accept certain kinds of lesser treatment than they would at other times in their lives.
I started writing plays, but the fact that plays don’t last forever was too much for me to bear.
I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific.
I find it really awkward to do a scene where I’m supposed to seem like I’m in love.
I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.
I love directing scenes that I’m not in because suddenly I really feel like a filmmaker which is a different thing.
I sometimes want to make a book of every tattoo I wanted to get before I actually got a tattoo, because there were so many awful ideas and concepts.
I think breakfast is the one meal when you don’t have to eat animal, maybe.
When I graduated college I had a series of just humiliating jobs that I couldn’t believe I was at.
No one wants to see a tattoo on a stomach.