Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
If you're working opposite an actor who can act, then all you have to do is listen and respond.
I met Jill Soloway at Sundance a couple years ago. I was there for 'Crystal Fairy', and she was there for 'Afternoon Delight'. She reached out and wanted to get together.
Playing dysfunctional characters or crazy characters is only fun if they're well written. So I have been lucky enough to be asked to play crazy people who are very well written.
It's so nice that there's all this new space for new, good content. It's good news for us actors, since nobody makes real independent films anymore.
I had a world of people who were raising me; it was like a little village.
Everybody I grew up with has incredible self-confidence and self-assurance. We were all loud, outspoken, wild kids and were celebrated for it.
I really enjoy taking care of people, and I was really ready to have a kid, so I didn't have to sacrifice anything that I didn't want to give up.
I think it's great anytime somebody can be in control of their own distribution.
I'm basically useless in interviews because I don't remember anything. But I find it very peaceful, actually, because I have a sort of busy mind. I'm like, 'This is great!'
Oh, I'm pregnant on 'Girls.'
I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them.
I didn't even realize that I was interested in film until I was in college, and since then, I've had a very uncertain and sort of lost decade.
'Crystal Fairy' was one of the first movies I did after I recommitted to the idea of acting.
My mother is the sort of a person who has no boundaries and no filter. She also has a big ego, but it's a very unique one. And I grew up with lots of artists in an environment where conformity and the norm were totally not what anybody was after.
It was sort of a solution to financial problems when I was a little kid. I just kept doing it because it's fun to be on movie sets.
Television has filled the space for actors that really want to make good work and not just make a lot of money and be famous for making a lot of money and being famous.
Suburbia, to me, was the most fantastical, unusual place. I thought it was Disneyland.
I was given an incredible gift growing up in the Chelsea, a space where it is completely fine to be yourself - you just had to figure out what that was. You didn't have to figure that out in the face of opposition at every turn.
The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.
