Bren MacGuff: Well, honey, doctors are sadists who like to play God and watch lesser people scream.

My boyfriend is Italian and from New Jersey, so naturally he was thrilled to meet Joe Pesci.

Juno: WOOOAH! ....Dreeeaaam BIG!

Ah, reality TV: where opportunists delight in exposing opportunism! It's kind of like the indie music scene.

I'm a pessimist by nature. I don't think things are ever going to work out, I'm not particularly ambitious.

For me, I am a huge fan of Sofia Coppola and Lynn Shelton. I love Lena Dunham, like everybody else. I love Kathryn Bigelow.

One nice thing about being a woman in Hollywood is that the women tend to be very close-knit. All of us writers and directors know each other and cling to each other for safety and support, and it's really a completely different vibe than the men experience out here, where they're all trying to murder each other.