This person realizes that staying home means blowing off everyone this person has ever known. But the desire to stay in is very strong. This person wants to run a bath and then read in bed.

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.

Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy to hope for something else.

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

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 idea that you might end up in a job that doesn't allow you to be who you are, over the course of a lifetime, is still one of the most chilling nightmares to me. It's a good metaphor for fears I have about losing my soul in some accidental, mundane way. So, to me, these jobs that my characters have are very loaded. They immediately suggest a complex character to me, a woman who is, say, a secretary, but also a vigilante on behalf of her own soul.

I realize that we all think we might be terrible people. But we only reveal this before we ask someone to love us. It is a kind of undressing.