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

I am actually able to do other things. I'm not just this writer.

I spent a lot of time staring at the clock in school, so I have that kind of personality.

You hear the term "staying grounded" a lot when you're coming up in the movie industry and it's the one word I don't really understand because it implies being tethered almost and I don't like that. Why stay grounded? You might as well become a complete eccentric, float off into the sky and burn yourself on the sun and go crazy.

I just want to be able to keep my house and pay for my son's school tuition in Los Angeles.

For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent.

I myself identify as a recovering Blockhead. You'd be surprised how many twenty- and thirty-something hipster chicks have the NKOTB skeleton in their closet, albeit artfully concealed by stacks of Ksubi skinny jeans and ironic Judas Priest T-shirts.