Here's who it's okay to share a bed with: . . . A heating pad. An empty bag of pita chips. The love of your life.

I didn't drink in the essence of the classroom. I didn't take legible notes or dance all night. I thought I would marry my boyfriend and grow old and sick of him. I thought I would keep my friends, and we'd make different, new memories. None of that happened. Better things happened.

I'm glad if my work can make a difference.

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.

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

I think about my best friendship - which the Marnie-Hannah friendship in Girls is based on - as like a great romance of my young life.

That's the feeling [of relativity] I always had about [Judy Blume] books which I re-read and re-read and re-read.