One of my good friends is Christian, goes to church every Sunday, very religious. I'm fine with that and I will never judge her.

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.

And a lot of times in slam poetry I feel like people are so worried about the performance that the words might not be as strong.

I think any time you have too much education in one certain field, that can sometimes play against you

I have never reached certain levels of fame, like Lindsay Lohan did, or even Brittany Murphy. My career has always been this sort of even-keeled, steady existence. I was also raised by poets, and I've been doing poetry as long as I've been acting.

Aubrey obviously plays Karen's, Sarah Michelle Gellar's, younger sister. And, um, she's sort of always been the underdog in the family and somebody who is not as ambitious or driven as her sister, as Karen's character, so she's sort of always felt like she's had to follow in her sister's footsteps.

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