Modern life has gotten so strange, we all get 150 emails and text messages a day, and it's hard when things are moving that quickly to keep that sense of wonder about being alive.

For some reason, I have a very strange conception of time. I am constantly hovering at some overview, more macro.

I'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me.

So much of the world is being brought up on these stories that Hollywood is coming up with and exporting all over. They have so much power and influence, so it's really important that they represent women properly.

I learned from my parents the idea that, if you are devoted enough and you want to study something enough, you can really teach yourself anything.

So writing became a way to get to act in things that I thought were meaningful, and hopefully write stronger roles for other women.

I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.