Always Trying New Things Is Always More

I Don't Think I've Ever Signed Onto Anything As Quickly As I Did The Hollars, Because I Come From A Really Loving, Well-connected Family, Where We See Each Other All The Time. And When I Was Done With This Script, I Was Like, "oh My God, That's My Family!" This Is Obviously A Very Dysfunctional Family, But There Was Something About It That Was Sort Of Universal. And I Think That In This Day And Age In Today's World - There's A Lot Of Drama Out There. It's Nice To Tell Stories About Things As Simple And Powerful As Family.

If You Did Go To High School And Then College, There's Definitely A Solidarity With Someone That Is From Your Hometown And Knows Your Mom, And All That Stuff. There's This Weird Politeness That We Have, As A Society. You Don't Want To Make It Hard For Anybody.

I Used To Make Fun Of My Friends Who Had Blackberries. And I Know That The Expression Crackberry Has Been Going Around, But Now I Fully Understand It. I'm Actually Addicted To A Piece Of Machinery, And That's Really Embarrassing

We Were Looking To Collaborate With Someone On Both Those Fronts [ Writing And Directing] And It Ended Up Just Being Me [in Brief Interviews With Hideous Men]. So, At This Point, It's The Epitome Of A Passion Project And I Just Hope People Like It.

We Live In A Very Modern Age And The Dynamic Of Raising Kids And Being A Professional Are Intersecting A Lot More - Especially For Women.