If you're seen as beautiful or sexy then your only options in terms of character descriptions are beautiful, sexy, cute - and that's it. And that affords you a certain amount of opportunity but that opportunity ultimately leads to a spark, never a flame.

There is a common, puritanical way that we look at things where, if it involves sexuality, somehow the women must be compromised. It's just chauvinistic to deny women their sexuality. It's about empowering. It comes down to choices. If the choices are available and they're making that choice, they're not being exploited.

If you're not seeing each other anymore because things are so strained, and your only communication is a weekly e-mail, and you're wondering which medium is most appropriate for announcing your desire to break up - guess what, you've already broken up.

I think my mother realized she had a somewhat unusual daughter pretty early on.

I do not hope somebody breaks in. However, if they did, I pity them. I pity the fool that breaks into my house.

Strength and independence are always something that I'm drawn to in all my characters, no matter how different they are from one another.

Models are just mannequins seeking validation at the hands of sleazy fashion people.