As someone who was born and raised in Los Angeles, I was really interested in the idea of people who move here to get into the business, and some of them do become famous and then oftentimes they fall out of that fame in very terrible ways.

Other people like Neil Young and Dennis Hopper, those are just really close knit family friends.

I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry

Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian.

When people ask me what I do for a living, I always say, "I get rejected for a living." And that's true.

I think at the end of the day this movie is respecting what we as women go through as we grow up. The experiences, what we deal with, other women, things about images, things that we deal with as women. This movie addresses that in a very appropriate and sincere way.

I've been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venice Beach