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

One of the things that's awesome about being an actor is that you get to do stories, live lives and have experiences that you never could have even conceived of, and that's because you're living in another writer's imagination and another director's imagination.

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

Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.

But, it has something to do with having belief in a human future and what that human future is. What is the future of humanity? How does this whole experiment not self-destruct with the environment and everything else going on?

I feel like success to me is about feeling like I have done something in storytelling, where I've gotten close to articulating something intangible that I'm feeling, and I think I get closer every time, but I don't know that I've done that yet.

I think sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical.