This act of empathy, that women go through from the time we're little girls - we read all of literature, all of history, it's really about boys, most of it. But I can feel more like Peter Pan than Tinker Bell, or like Wendy. I wanted to be Tom Sawyer, not Becky. And we're so used to that act of empathizing with the protagonist of a male-driven plot. I mean, that's what we've done all our lives. You read history, you read great literature, Shakespeare, it's all fellas, you know?

When I was in - at Vassar, and I came from a public high school in New Jersey, there was - that class still existed. I think it's pretty much gone, but there was a way of talking that the private school girls had that was different than the way I talked from New Jersey.

I have a lot to say about the world, clearly. I can't put together a clear sentence about it all, but through the work I can say what I think.

All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.

I'm thrilled when I get nominated. I don't count how many and I don't remember how many I've had. I just know it's a lot.

That is the simple secret. Always take your heart to work.

I don't really talk about my process very much, because I feel like if I give something away, it might not come back.