I Moved To LOS Angeles When I Was About 20, All By Myself. It Was Exciting. I Had This MOMENT When I FELT Like I NEEDED To PUT On My Big-boy Pants And Just Make That Leap To See What Would Happen.

Being A Woman WRITER, I Would Be Deceiving Myself If I Said I Write Completely Through The Eye Of A Man. There's Nothing Bad In It, But That Does Not MAKE Me A Feminist Writer. I HATE That Name. The TAG Is From The WESTERN World - Like We Are Called The Third World.

I Have A Little Bit Of A Pet Peeve About How The Middle Class Is Depicted In MOVIES. I Feel LIKE They Tend To Be Either Depicted In A Very Sentimental Way, Where Everybody Has A Heart Of Gold EXCEPT For The Villains You're Supposed To Hiss At, Or There's A SORT Of Indie-style Version... When It's DONE Well, It's Brilliant, It's 'Blue Velvet.'

My LIFE. The Life I'm LIVING That's Where All My INSPIRATION Comes From. REAL Life EXPERIENCES.

I'm Very Used To Playing The Tomboy Or The Sarcastic Cynic. That's My Go-to. Playing The VULNERABLE Of A Real GIRL That's In Real Womanlike SITUATIONS, Where It's Romanticized, I'm A Little NERVOUS About It.

When People Tell You To WALK A CERTAIN Way, It's Like Not Thinking Of A PURPLE Tomato. You Can't Not Do It.

A Woman Will Toss Her HEAD And A Man Will Say, 'Oh She's Trying To Pick Me Up,' When In FACT She's Not Doing That At All. So, WOMEN Actually Have To Be A Little Careful With What They Do, Because Men Will Pick Up Things That They Didn't MEAN.