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.

When I was nine, I wrote a vow of celibacy on a piece of paper and ate it.

I hate to be the person that's like, "We're doing something that's never been done before."

Survivors are so often re-victimized by a system that demands they prove their purity and innocence.

I think what people really hate is to be caught by surprise by criticism.

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

Positive, healthy, loving relationships in your twenties... I don't know if anyone would disagree with it: I think they're the exception, not the norm. People are either playing house really aggressively because they're scared of what an uncertain time it is, or they're avoiding commitment altogether.