My mom brought me up to be a feminist. She would always point out to my brother and me that our culture does often portray women like objects...

Why am I doing the work I'm doing? Why am I friends with this person? Am I living the best life I possibly can? Questions are often looked upon as questions of doubt but I don't see it that way at all. I question things to stay present, to make sure I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing.

Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy.

I think the way the media is going to work in the future is less something that the population consumes and more something that the population creates.

I'm definitely not a science nerd, I'll say that. That was not my forte at school.

A lot of movies try to set up a world with cool sets, costumes, camera work. In Brick, the world is born from the words.

Real life is not like a movie. Even the best movies, the most rich, fleshed-out movies are not as rich and nuanced as detailed as real life or an actual human being.