The pressure for an actress to look good and be skeletally thin is insane and unrealistic and it's a subject I've been fascinated by.

When you create, it comes from this deep part of you, and your job is you, and so when you don't get heard it can feel bad and frustrating and you have to somehow keep the confidence up.

I will watch a ton of movies while I'm writing for inspiration. "Postcards from the Edge" was one. I love the mother-daughter relationship and all the hard humiliating stuff she has to go through. Or thinks she has to go through.

It was fun to create characters who had truth to them but were also made up so as not to completely offend!

I wouldn't say that I was an actress. I tried to be an actress. I really didn't have the gift.

I'm pretty sure a lot of directors would be thrilled to cast age appropriate roles. I am.

The celebrity culture demands a camera-ready-at-all-times look or else the photo is circulated in a demeaning headline.