A lot of girls ask for advice on how to get into acting, and I'm kind of the worst person to ask, because it just kind of fell in my lap... I was just in the right place at the right time.

I think it caught on because the stories that these four girls have individually in the book are extremely relatable. They're very real teenage experiences. I …

Directors and writers have a lot of stress as well, because they have people they answer to.

When you put the corset on it gives you a glimpse into what those women's lives must have been like, a little bit. Just the fact that they did that to themselv…

I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise.

Actually, I was having dinner with Michael (Stipe, of R.E.M.) when our second album went platinum, which up until that point was the highest success we'd ever …

I never really had an interest in it in the beginning. Nicolas Cage -we had some mutual friends - introduced me to his agent. She sent me to a casting director…