Part of the challenge of being a girl living in the 21st Century, looking back, the danger is to not judge your character by your own standards.

I do not do my own taxes. It's too many forms. "Here are my 70,000 forms. I have no idea."I would be in jail.

I really love people. I love to meet people. I'm curious about people.

Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.

I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women. I'd been thinking about what I would want to do with that if I was going to write on that theme, and one morning I woke up and Calvin and Ruby Sparks were in my head.

I've worked with a lot of really famous people. It stops being weird really quickly. For me, at least.

Wildlife was the only thing we've written together with Paul Dano. It's based on a book by this author Richard Ford, who just published a memoir about his family that's really wonderful. Paul fell in love with his book, and we optioned it ourselves, and he took a first pass at writing it. He asked me for notes, and then our note session devolved into an argument really quickly.