I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to have experts in those areas giving me the brain space as a writer and director is huge.

I think if you feel like you were born to write, then you probably were.

Part of being a feminist is giving other women the freedom to make choices you might not necessarily make yourself.

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

You don't need to be flamboyant in your life to be flamboyant in your work.

I started writing plays, but the fact that plays don't last forever was too much for me to bear.

My shape reminds me a lot of my grandmother, whom I was really close to. She died when I was 13, and we have a really similar body type, the squat New England woman who can roll out dough and bring in your lawnmower. That's kind of the vibe of my body, and I'm into it.