In the past, I'll admit, I've enjoyed being compared to the protagonists in my screenplays.

Honestly, this will never happen because she's so much classier than me, but I would love to work with Sofia Coppola.

I would never consent to a lame publicity stunt at a time when I already want to hide.

The attitude toward women in this industry is nauseating. There are all sorts of porcine executives who are uncomfortable with a woman doing anything subversive. They want the movie about the beautiful girl who trips and falls, the adorable klutz.

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.

Los Angeles is often described as the nadir of vapidity, a smog-choked space cradle.

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.