I am fully a feminist in this modern definition of the term. It's innate in my work because that's just who I am.
Because I'd grown up with this singular focus on sports, I just kind of did that with acting. That became an obsession. How am I going to make it? How am I going to figure that out?
I discovered that my biggest passion was for directing, so in making opportunity for myself, I found what I like doing the best.
There's this idea that motherhood is as American as apple pie, but yet we don't support it with any government assistance.
There was a feeling I had when I got pregnant and decided to keep the baby, and I knew I wasn't going to be with the baby daddy, and I was really toying with what my identity would be.
We had no money. My family was in Southie; I was in affluent Brookline. I don't know if it's my personality or the circumstance, but it all kind of led to this feeling of being an observer on the outside.