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" From my experience, meditating can bring up the most stressful thoughts. "

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" A flower doesn't love you or hate you, it just exists. "

" I started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowth of my desire to tell stories. "

" I started out writing when I was young; stuff about exposing the truth about how people are not what they appear, about how they are much more dysfunctional than they seem. Pulling back the curtain - that felt smart. But as I got older, exposing how frail people can be seems less and less deep. "

" There's something magical about Oaxaca and the vibe of the people. "

" I want to have compassion for my characters - I feel like I am the characters when I'm writing them. "

" There's something very touching to me about someone almost communicating to themselves in some way - trying to come to some deeper understanding of yourself and having compassion for yourself. "

" Production for movies or TV is very painstaking and slow. "

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" If I have a male protagonist, it's a studio movie, and if it's a female protagonist, it's an indie movie. That's just how it is. It's not about the studios. It's about America and who goes to see movies. Women are interested in men and women, and men aren't interested in the woman's story. They just aren't. "

" The things that drive me crazy are coming from this place of people suffering because of people polluting into rivers or whatever. It's not simply just about systems; it's an emotional reaction to seeing animals or people suffering. "

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