Basically, anything a sexual predator might do to woo a small suburban girl, I was trying.

I'm really lucky because I surround myself onset with people who I really trust to give me feedback, so I'm directing myself.

I think romantic comedy, when done right, is my favorite genre. It's just a genre that's very human.

But I want to tell my stories, more than that, I have to in order to stay sane.

There is no way that my mother hasn't influenced my career. She's my first critic. She's my best critic. She has the best instincts from writing to style to editing, to the visual elements of my career.

Don't put yourself in situations you'd like to run away from. But when you run, run back to yourself.

That's the feeling [of relativity] I always had about [Judy Blume] books which I re-read and re-read and re-read.