I grew up in Texas, and people love their American-made muscle cars there. I grew up around people who loved cars and took care of cars and my dad's a big car nut, so I learned a little bit about cars - how to love them, most importantly. I think that from the time I could remember, I've always envisioned myself in a vintage muscle car.

I've made movies that were adaptations and I've been kind of frustrated by the process because, you know that old axiom, 'It's never as good as the book'? It's often true because nothing competes with your own imagination. When you're reading a book and you imagine something in your head, nothing's going to compete with that.

Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the charming smile and say very little and be complacent and docile and sweet.

Reading keeps me sane. Growing up, it was my scape, my alternative; it provided both rebellion and peace.

We all appreciated a certain aesthetic, and with that appreciation came a certain stylized presence.

I'm fighting for the right to get married. For other people.

I grew up just outside of Austin, and my upbringing was fairly rural.