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

It's not brave to do something that doesn't scare you. Performing in sex scenes that I direct, exposing a flash of my weird puffy nipple, those things don't fall into my zone of terror.

One of the reasons I'm so proud of my mother is she took her skills of over a 40 years photographic career and translated that to a film.

I always say that I can play sort of six variations on one girl, all of whom are a variation on me. Maybe I'll think of myself as an actor if, like, I do a corset drama.

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.

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

I feel like you don't know if someone's equipped for a romantic relationship until they're out of their twenties.