If someone doesn't answer your email within six hours, it means they hate you.

But ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put.

I thought about starting a novella club because it seemed less ambitious.

On Girls I like being a mouthpiece for the issues I think young females face today. It’s always shocking when people question whether it’s a feminist show. How could a show about women exploring women not be? Feminism isn’t a dirty word. It’s not like we’re a deranged group who think women should take over the planet, raise our young on our own and eliminate men from the picture. Feminism is about women having all the rights that men have.

I love directing scenes that I'm not in because suddenly I really feel like a filmmaker which is a different thing.

Aren't most of us dealing with the fact that we have moms who either weren't ready to be moms or had some level of resentment about it? Everybody is dealing with the different iteration of pain their mom has handed them.

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.