I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.

Let's call a spade a spade - a lot of times when you are a vegetarian it is a just not very effective eating disorder.

I have an agent now.

I find it really awkward to do a scene where I'm supposed to seem like I'm in love.

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.