I don't think I ever got the hang of the writers' room. I love collaborating with people, but I really do my best work alone, and I think I would want to - if I did something again, I think I'd want to take total ownership the way Aaron Sorkin or David Kelley does.

For me, stripping was an unusual kind of escape. I had nothing to escape but privilege, but I claimed asylum anyway. At twenty-four, it was my last chance to reject something and become nothing. I wanted to terrify myself. Mission accomplished.

I do a nice sloppy first draft like everybody else. And then just work at it and work at it and groom it. I get input from other people.

Juno: WOOOAH! ....Dreeeaaam BIG!

I always say when you write a book, you're a 'one-man band.' Whereas, when you finish a screenplay, it's just a sketch.

Juno MacGuff: I was out handling things way beyond my maturity level.

As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one.