I always thought the saddest feeling in life is when you're dancing in a really joyful way and then you hit your head on something.

I seriously consider television to be the people's medium.

When I graduated college I had a series of just humiliating jobs that I couldn't believe I was at.

My parents are artists; in their world, in the world of modern artists, you are supposed to just go into your studio and tune everything out, and your entire relationship with your work is supposed to be a super private one. That was the way to do it and you weren't deeply truly artistic if that wasn't the way you were engaging the press.

I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific.

I'm always afraid that I'm being unprofessional, yet I continue to sign all my e-mails 'xoxo.'

I'm ridiculous in my oversharing; my mom and sister are very open but a little more judicious than me... and my father is a decidedly private person.

My weight fluctuates depending on my mood and my current devotion to my fitness routine.

I just hope that I continue to keep a line between my private life and who I play, even if they are closely intertwined, and so I'm careful. I don't even know where my line is, but I know I have a line.

I am anti-pants.

I feel like you don't know if someone's equipped for a romantic relationship until they're out of their twenties.

Positive, healthy, loving relationships in your twenties... I don't know if anyone would disagree with it: I think they're the exception, not the norm. People are either playing house really aggressively because they're scared of what an uncertain time it is, or they're avoiding commitment altogether.

I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to have experts in those areas giving me the brain space as a writer and director is huge.

I sort of tend to equate tattoos with prisoners, punks or people with a high level of self-confidence. I don't necessarily have a covered-in-tattoos personality.

All my freakouts have been pretty private and directed at family pets and/or people I have been dating for too short a time to freak out at in that way.

I love what I do, I love every minute of it.

I can play very annoying girl, very lost girl and then all the things in the spectrum between.

I'm always having to be told to brush my hair.

I always imagined that having a baby is something that I'm going to keep in a private place, but maybe my curse is that all I'm going to want to do is tell everybody about what my birth process was like and what my children's nightmares are.

When I write I'm never really thinking about themes or the universal.

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.