I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.

I mean, I - it's so funny, I am, you know, I am, you know, a working woman out in the world, but I still live with my parents half the time. I've been sort of taking this very long, stuttering period of moving out.

Feminism and issues surrounding being female in the world, always, but particularly right now at this complicated cultural moment. It's a huge part of what's important to me.

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.

The people accusing me of being productive don't know how hard it is for me to just bend my elbow sometimes.

I am not a particularly political person, but, as a Tribeca resident, the commodification of September 11th is offensive to me.

I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific.