I liked the title, and I wanted to explore the concept of this contrived holiday and what happens when romance is forced on us.

I do recommend it for all girls, and boys, out there: put on a pair of fishnet stockings and find your inner sexiness!

It's not like suddenly, when you become a working actor all your friends are in the same situation. I have friends who are still handing out flyers for their one-woman show and trying to make ends meet.

Absolutely, I don't believe in rules. As I tell my daughter when she is mischievous, 'Well-behaved women rarely make history.'

America was founded on immigrants. The immigrant experience is common to all of us.

I have this theory of life that there are four popular people in high school and then there are the rest of us. I write movies for the rest of us who never peaked in high school. For the people that did peak in high school and then realized later that it's all downhill, welcome to the movie as well.