Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Desiree Akhavan

Sometimes somebody has an amazing house party and you meet great people and you dance - I've had incredible experiences. But they have been so much fewer than the awful experiences where you're just standing around like, "Why did I come here? We're all just putting on a show for each other and I might as well be in a museum."

I have really strong feelings about sex scenes in movies. I care a lot about sexuality and how it's depicted in mainstream media, period, but what I know is movies, and what I find is that they tend to be kind of one-note.

I'm a director and a writer, and I'm used to having my way. I'm not used to being a vessel for other people.

It's hard to see potential in a rough cut - especially with comedy, which is hit or miss. This is where my lack of experience hurt me - not in the execution of the final product, but with my expectations for it in the early stages of post.

I think I'm incredibly self-aware to a fault.

Creatively, editing was the most painful part of the process for me.

I don't believe in being lazy, but I do think that this "big kid" thing may just be misinterpreting people who are taking advantage of all their opportunities and not tying themselves down to traditional gender roles or traditional life roles.

Don't wait for someone to enable you to make something.

Perhaps one day I will be fortunate enough to be upset over how I misunderstood I am. A girl can dream.