I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor, trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that, and I've been known to crawl out of bed and drink out of a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke.

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

I really just love to open a blank document and spew, whereas with a screenplay I have to be more judicious.

I am a karaoke purist and I don't like that. I don't think it's enough for you to just be there with your friends singing. I think you need to be in front of a crowd of hostile strangers for it to truly count.

I don't think coolness used to be such a commodity among adults. And now it is.

I'm glad that as a 33-year-old working mother, I can still choose to wear a Hello Kitty T-shirt or stay up late scrolling through the Twitter feed of my junior-high crush.

I'm not an especially highbrow person, but I have always loved small, quirky, edgy movies.