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."

I feel like so much more than my gender and so much more than my relationship to my body and my relationship to men. And, but suddenly you're sort of asked to be an expert.

The experience of directing yourself in a sex scene is, in a way, great. It's the fantasy we all have in our lives all the time.

From what I hear, [ "Fifty Shades of Grey" ] is not a way that I feel like I need to be turned on or like a hole that needs to be filled in me.

Escapism for me can come in the form of someone else's reality.

The people accusing me of being productive don't know how hard it is for me to just bend my elbow sometimes.

I deserved kisses. I deserved to be treated like a piece of meat but also respected for my intellect.