When you're a director, you have great respect for directors. I am really pretty loyal to any director that I am working for and I want to help them realize whatever story and mood and tone that they're trying to realize. As an actor, you really just are a cog - you are an important cog, but you are just a piece of the machine.

You have to be steadfast, and right now I'm on a stream train forward to make.

It's like the most profound accomplishment that I've had in my career, that I can finally be that voice.

I feel very fortunate to be currently in the position where I can choose to be an actor, writer, director, or all of them at the same time. With being a mom, I've recently had a priority shift that has sort of thrusted itself on my existence, but I tend to use all experiences as something to work with. Anything that is profoundly, energy shifting - like having a child - is fodder for creative thought.

I'm going to say a phrase or terminology or vowel that I don't know how to attack .

But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.

I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.