I've always been someone in [childhood] period of my life sort of the pains and anxieties of being young are the things that have really stuck with me.

I'm always afraid that I'm being unprofessional, yet I continue to sign all my e-mails 'xoxo.'

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.

I have to take my shoes off, you guys.

I would have specific books [when I was 12 or 13] that had pages that I knew had sex on them that I would go and read.

I'm ridiculous in my oversharing; my mom and sister are very open but a little more judicious than me... and my father is a decidedly private person.

I think what people really hate is to be caught by surprise by criticism.