I do use reality because I want my work to feel real, I want it to feel heartfelt. I don't want to make it up and have it sound corny or unrelatable.

I was brought up in the Christian church and I studied in the teachings of Jesus. I believed in caring for others and trying to be kind. It's something I still have to work on every day.

My daughter could do and be anything, without having to fight to get through the glass ceiling. Without having it be so extraordinary. If my daughter went to produce a soundtrack for a movie, there would be nothing extraordinary about a girl doing it. When I did it, it was highly unusual.

The line is very delicate and fine between being what one might call sane or insane, well or unwell.

You don't want to say somebody did a great job of acting. You want to say, Where did he find that person? How did he get that factory worker to come out of the factory and be on camera? You want to believe that person is real.

I don't care how somebody gets their education, as long as they have one.

Every straight man I know is a feminist. They wouldn't be my friends if they weren't.

To me, the housewife who puts her teacups unwashed in the sink because her husband won't wash them, is political. Every act is political: the things you do, as well as the things you omit doing the things you refuse to do the things you fail to do the things you say, as well as the things you don't say.

As a writer, you look for someplace to start. Once you have a beginning and you've written the first two sentences, nothing else will ever change it.