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

There is something vulnerable about showing your tattoos to people, even while it gives you a feeling that you are wearing a sleeve when you are naked.

It's a very specific body. Even great reviews will be like: chubby, portly, overweight. . . . Sometimes I'm like, 'Ugh, how did I make myself the guinea pig for this?' But on the other hand, hating my body has not been my cross to bear in this life. Which I feel very lucky about.

I deserved kisses. I deserved to be treated like a piece of meat but also respected for my intellect.

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

You know, I always think of myself as sort of ready for every criticism.

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.