I spent my whole life trying to play the games males play.

Every experience makes you grow.

After three major movies, I was like, 'Oh, I guess you're supposed to get a publicist?' Girls that are in the business now that are successful are more savvy.

It would be really wonderful if people connected to the loneliness of what it means to be a human being in the world today.

My mom had started to go to work when I was nine or ten, so I was aware of women trying to find their own identities by working. But I was still influenced by men to such an extreme. I wanted to play their games and wanted to compete in their world and be like them.

Growing up with three boys in a heavily male-dominated world, I especially needed to express myself as a woman.

I did 'The Karate Kid,' then I just went back to college. I didn't know how much money it made and I didn't have a publicist. I didn't have any sense of the business part of it.