I don't know that the stereotypical idea of what it is to be a child of somebody hugely famous necessarily comes into play in my life.

After college, I shot a pilot for a show on Lifetime, which was basically House of Style for a TV lover. I think I got paid $1,500, and I was like, "Mom, I'm moving out! I made it!" I did two seasons of that, but I felt like a talking head and wanted to do more.

Sometime in my second year at Brown [University], I took an acting class. And the lightbulb went off for me. I fell in love with it. I realized that everything I was afraid of about myself, all my fears, could be used in that world.

Differences in experience, points of view and opinions aren't what pulls us apart. It's what pulls us together.

We all, as women, need to continue to change our gaze from how we are seen to how we are seeing.

Sometimes I feel like art is supposed to mirror life, but strangely it's as if art is trying to catch up to life, to a certain extent?

I think our culture promotes fear and shame.