No I don’t really write thinking about specific actors because it can get in the way a little bit.

I think, as a woman, you do sort of have to work twice as hard, but I don’t feel as if I wasn’t given opportunities.

I liked to think I had written ‘scripts’ when I was in high school, but looking back at them, they were about thirty pages of wannabe-Mamet dialogue with a staple through them.

It’s really hard as a screenwriter, you feel like you have a vision and then you turn it over to a director and you have to let it go.

Allow yourself to feel things. Admit when you’re wrong.

There’s this part of Judaism that I like. Tikun Alum. It said that the world is broken into pieces and everyone has to find it.

Don’t compromise when you’re right.

We didn’t miss it. This is it. C’mon. You wanna go home?

I think when you take forever off the table, it does something really interesting to what you think is important. There’s something a little freeing about it.

I’ve been obsessed with doomsday for a long time – the idea that different cultures respond to it differently, and religions will change people’s outlook on it.