"The public's appetite for frothy, flippant blondes has waned, but Paris Hilton still fascinates me." — Diablo Cody

I had the experience last year of directing my first feature while I had a 1-year-old son and while I was also pregnant, so I am now well aware of the difficulties women who are rearing children face when they're also trying to make headway in mainstream of film.

I'm glad that as a 33-year-old working mother, I can still choose to wear a Hello Kitty T-shirt or stay up late scrolling through the Twitter feed of my junior-high crush.

In the past, I'll admit, I've enjoyed being compared to the protagonists in my screenplays.

I am actually able to do other things. I'm not just this writer.