If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.

Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.

And I think the female creative urge is intrinsically biologically linked to our ability to give birth to a child, even if we've never... I've never given birth, but I feel like it's part of our psychology.

I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.

In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.

When I look back, I can say that the summer when I was 19 was a formative time for me. But at the time I just thought I was making tofu every night for dinner and going to work.