Carla Gallo

On 'Undeclared,' I was actually the only person who had gone to college. Here we are doing this college show, and no one had actually really been, and it was so bizarre to me.

I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'

I've never had someone pick outfits for me. Almost everything I get is from Goodwill.

People say if you're doing an art project, that's different from a book, but I honestly don't see it. I try and try, and I just don't.

Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.