There are [in Hollywood] some endemic problems and some things that happen over and over again. There's the problem of representation of basically anybody but white men. These are things that we talk about a lot in contemporary culture, and it's interesting to me to go look at film history from the perspective of today.

I really feel like I could do anything if given enough time.

The thing that breaks my heart about [Dennis Wilson] is that he was very naïve from the beginning to the end.

Hollywood is really weird to talk about in this monolithic sense because it's this microcosm of anywhere. It's full of a lot of people who have different intentions and different points of view.

As a performer, I could be like, "I don't want to leave that in there." But as a producer, I have to leave it in there.

One of the reasons why I failed was because I figured out in the research process that I couldn't tell it as just, "This is what Frances Farmer's life was like." There are so many questions as to what her life was like because of the way her story has been seized upon and exploited by different factions.

I was trying to see if I could produce an episode - completely write it and research it and record it and edit it - all by myself in a week.