I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific.

Instagram what you think is funny and exciting and try not to include any animal abuse!

If you watch my movie, you understand I am perverse and weird and angry and not looking to direct a film that ends with a bunch of teenagers exploding into glitter.

I can’t imagine a passionate affair with a native man

You don't need to be flamboyant in your life to be flamboyant in your work.

I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.

It was only when I started making short films in college and I was looking for girls to play the me-ish parts that I thought, Well, maybe I'm just going to try doing this myself before somebody else comes in and handles it. For a long time my acting was just a marriage of convenience between me and these characters that I was writing.