I think Grace [Dunham] and I are always working from a personal place, and the fact that these were issues that we'd been talking about in our own families really clicked, but also Jason's [Benjamin] passion about it and his clear sense that this was going to be something emotional and remarkable to watch. It was very hard not get excited about it and want to help in any way we could.

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

When I write I'm never really thinking about themes or the universal.

I think of my body as a tool to do the stuff I need to do, but not the be all end all of my existence.

I don't want to get married until all gay people can get married.

It’s interesting to see how other people react to an oversharer.

When you're writing a script you have the option to embellish on life or switch the order of events or make it generally more cinematic. I would stick too closely to my own experience and not necessarily think about the fact that it needs to have an event happen. Realising that I could channel my own experience into a story that was slightly more cinematic was a very important moment for me - allowing myself to accept that the kind of screenwriting I'm doing is a work of fiction.