If you watch my movie, you understand I am perverse and weird and angry and not looking to direct a film that ends with a bunch of teenagers exploding into glitter.

Mine's [fans] a lot of like weird guys in prison. So I don't need to answer them.

Calling someone a drama queen is so negative. Why not 'content creator'?

I was raised on the internet.

Katherine Heiny's work does something magical: elevates the mundane so that it has the stakes of a mystery novel, gives women's interior lives the gravity they so richly deserve -- and makes you laugh along the way.

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

I never set out to make any statements about a specific character, I just set out to tell what feels like is a truthful story, a person that you and I might truly encounter.