I met this homeless man who had never owned a shirt in his life. He had taken his pants and worn them as a shirt and I thought it was so creative. He was liberated from the conventions of fashion.

Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.

Theater is like going to the gym for actors.

I did a run of a play over the summer in a really tiny theater in New York and that was rejuvenating for me. I directed a short series for Hulu called Paloma and being in an editing room, I learned a lot about acting.

Make yourself useful, not just on a day to day basis, but as a lifetime thing.

I think audiences, producers and directors included, develop crushes on actors (actresses in particular) and then lose interest and move on to the next one.

I pretty much grew up in public.