I have to write people who feel honest but also push our cultural ball forward.

I'd love to write something for a male protagonist. That's sort of the next frontier for me. I think it'd be really amazing to write the kind of parts that I love for women but for a guy.

It's funny, I never considered that people are going to see me on the show and maybe stop me on the subway.

My parents were very supportive when I was growing up and have been all the way through.

There is something vulnerable about showing your tattoos to people, even while it gives you a feeling that you are wearing a sleeve when you are naked.

It's really hard to grow with another person.

My uncle's a lawyer and I remember going to see him in court and thinking, 'That's cool, too bad I could never be a lawyer.'

I had no friends. I worried a lot.

I love directing scenes that I'm not in because suddenly I really feel like a filmmaker which is a different thing.

I love flawed female characters, duking it out.

I don't really read reviews... That's not where my attention goes.

I never start anything with a really overt, political, or even exactly artistic mission statement.

I never thought of myself as like, a funny person.

I went to an amazing school in Brooklyn called St. Anne's that's a really kind of creative hot bed.

I've always been someone who feels better, if I see what I'm going through in a movie.

I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.

I learned that people are much more game to mock their own personas than you would think.

I guess I think about doing stuff that nobody else has done.

Every time I start feeling sexy I trip.

When it's low-budget, and you have one other person on the set, you have to make rules.

I'm half Jewish half WASP.

I think that people in the phase between being someone's kid and being someone's parent have always been uniquely narcissistic, but that social media and Twitter and LiveJournal make it really easy to navel-gaze in a way that you've never been able to before.

I was raised on the Internet.

It's interesting how we often can't see the ways in which we are being strong - like, you can't be aware of what you're doing that's tough and brave at the time that you're doing it because if you knew that it was brave, then you'd be scared.