I Have A Lot Of Screenwriter Friends

I'm Glad That As A 33-year-old Working Mother, I Can Still Choose To Wear A Hello Kitty T-shirt Or Stay Up Late Scrolling Through The Twitter Feed Of My Junior-high Crush.

I Do A Nice Sloppy First Draft Like Everybody Else. And Then Just Work At It And Work At It And Groom It. I Get Input From Other People.

The One Thing I Have Found About Hollywood Is It's A Town Full Of People Who Believe In Themselves, Often To A Degree Where They're What You Would Call "delusional."

I Had The Experience Last Year Of Directing My First Feature While I Had A 1-year-old Son And While I Was Also Pregnant, So I Am Now Well Aware Of The Difficulties Women Who Are Rearing Children Face When They're Also Trying To Make Headway In Mainstream Of Film.

For Me, Stripping Was An Unusual Kind Of Escape. I Had Nothing To Escape But Privilege, But I Claimed Asylum Anyway. At Twenty-four, It Was My Last Chance To Reject Something And Become Nothing. I Wanted To Terrify Myself. Mission Accomplished.