Once, my little sister was walking down the street in her thick black glasses, and a homeless man muttered, Talk nerdy to me.

I have work, and then I have a dinner thing. And then I am busy, trying to become who I am.

My parents are pretty liberal. But they were just you know trying to look out for my innocence or whatever. But my babysitter had "Forever" [by Judy Blume]. And I said "Well I've read Judy Blume books, can I borrow that?" And she said no, this one's not appropriate for you. Which obviously, got me really worked up. So I took it.

Women want to control other women because they've been controlled themselves. It's a cycle of control. I'm not blaming women for that, but I am saying we're part of a toxic culture that's feeding all of us the same messaging.

I'd always loved movies, but it wasn't some sort of desperate love of celluloid. It was literally like, "I want to write things, and I want people to see them more."

When someone shows you how little you mean to them and you keep coming back for more, before you know it you start to mean less to yourself.

I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.