As a woman filmmaker it's pretty important that you have some basis of confidence that you're coming from, because, as I got closer to LA, there's less and less women. There's less and less mirrors for who you are.

The level of control, that's part of what's so appealing about filmmaking - you have so much control over what the reader, the viewer, is noticing from moment to moment. They can't do that boring boring boring thing as easily.

We had loved people we really shouldn't have loved and then married other people in order to forget our impossible loves, or we had once called out hello into the cauldron of the world and then run away before anyone could respond.

I really did not feel okay about any of this, and there was really nothing I could do about any of it.

I spend a lot of time obsessing about getting a dignified eight hours' sleep.

I wish there were a class where we could just keep going around the circle. around and around, until we had finally said everything about ourselves.

I am very sincere. Some people are always kidding, so when you're not, it's going to seem annoying to them.