“I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.”
Relationship
“I would go to work from 9 to 6, go home, nap for two hours, then write from 8 to 2 a.m.”
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“My mom knows pretty well how I see her.”
Mom“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.”
Amazing“If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people - that comes in later.”
Amazing“I never thought of myself as like, a funny person.”
Funny“I feel like you don't know if someone's equipped for a romantic relationship until they're out of their twenties.”
Relationship“You know, bad poetry I wrote in high school can still be found on the Internet, and, you know, there's a Web log of our college newspaper. You know, there's so many different stages of my creative development are sort of on-record if somebody were to choose to look for them.”
Poetry“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.”
Dating“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.'”
Cool“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.”
Movies“At my age, no one is married, no one has kids, no one has a career.”
Age“I feel like I don't watch that many shows with death.”
Death“It's very easy for me to say what success is. I think success is connecting with an audience who understands you and having a dialogue with them. I think success is continuing to push yourself forward creatively and not sort of becoming a caricature of yourself.”
Success“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.”
Age“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.”
Positive“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.”
Mom“I'm not great at dating, but I need to do it to relax.”
Dating“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.”
Hope“It's funny, I never considered that people are going to see me on the show and maybe stop me on the subway.”
Funny“There's always an article coming out, saying, 'The new thing is funny women!'”
Funny