I've always wanted to work for, like, "Assume your audience is cleverer than you," rather than the other way around.

I'm a huge fan of basically anything written about complicated, contradictory women. I'm drawn to them really quickly.

I have a real aversion to sentimentality, but I also really want to write about love and friendship.

Actually, my worst nightmare is losing my best friend, as I imagine most people's are.

I suppose every time [something bad happens], I have that instinct to make that joke that distracts.

I think a lot of time, I'm just writing my worst fears.

I'm constantly on the brink of tears in conversation about things that happen to people.

I know actors who say acting is acting, but I love the live-ness of an audience. I love feeling the energy of a room and allowing them to sort of teach you how to do it better.

I feel like my home is stage acting.

All of sudden, this shooting star went by, and all I could think was that they were listening to us somehow.

For the first time in a long time I've met a man that makes my heart want to stay.

Worry is the only emotion that never leaves a human's heart.

Empathy is the ultimate form of customer insight.

A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.

I find it ironic that fear is eliminating the possibility to tell stories that depict our ability to overcome fear

Do me wrong, do me right, tell me lies, but hold me tight.

There was a time where I was the youngest one in any group, and now when I turn around sometimes, I'm the oldest one in every group. It just seemed to flip-flop one day - it wasn't a gradual thing.

People aren't just people, they are people surrounded by circumstances.

The first tattoo I got was when I was 17, and it's a cross on my bicep with 'Only God Can Judge Me' underneath.