There are problems everywhere, of course, but you can only see those certain problems when you reach a certain level. So I try to think of those problems as, "This is a sign that I'm having success, that I'm also having issues with this."

I've always just shown up to set and said the lines, [but] I want to help develop scripts and help cast and help bring a visual tone to something.

In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition.

There's innate competition, I think, between mothers and daughters - mine no more so than anyone else.

What you learn in any acting class is how to make a fool of yourself and enjoy things and get out of your head.

There's been no nepotism in my acting artistic life, but I think it's been pretty clear in my writing life. I knew what a pantoum was at age 11 - I knew form - therefore I would win the poetry contest. But I also realized that I would never be a great writer.

Offers come up, but I'm still fighting for jobs and auditioning and being rejected.