If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people - that comes in later.

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'm not jealous in traditional ways - of boyfriends or babies or bank accounts - but I do covet other women's styles of being.

The thing that's so hard about being a kid is you don't have enough knowledge to explain things yourself.

It's okay to change your mind. About a feeling, a person, a promise of love.

The end never comes when you think it will. It's always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left.

I sort of tend to equate tattoos with prisoners, punks or people with a high level of self-confidence. I don’t necessarily have a covered-in-tattoos personality.