I don’t really read reviews… That’s not where my attention goes.

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

I went to schools that were small enough that basically everyone was in a play. I played a bouncing ball in a production of Alice in Wonderland and a fat man in an Italian commedia dell'arte play. I was given some small chances.

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

People are ultimately threatened by young people taking positions of power.

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.