When I was a kid, I attended a small Catholic school in a south suburb of Chicago.

I think it's pretty obvious that women's stories are not necessarily being told in Hollywood and women are not necessarily being put in the leadership positions they deserve in mainstream film.

To enjoy being famous, you need to have a screw loose.

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

The stuff I write isn't strictly autobiographical, but it's personal, if that makes any sense. It draws all these little incidents and people out of my life and then contorts them.

It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting these adolescent scenes.

I do not quote my own movies. I think I would be pretty insufferable if I did.