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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account.  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Nov 13, 2014 12:04 PM UTC  Actress Zooey Deschanel Actress Zooey Deschanel Keene–Corbis  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Nov 13, 2014 12:04 PM UTC **Your band She & Him is releasing a covers album,** **_Classics_** **, on Dec. 2\. What attracts you to standards?** That was how I started out–it’s actually how I learned to write music. I had a cabaret act, and I transposed all the music and I would play through all these Gershwin and Cole Porter songs. I learned so much about song structure, and it was really such a great education. **Loretta Lynn wants you to play her in a Broadway version of Coal Miner’s Daughter. Is she a role model for you?** She’s a little firecracker. She’s so true to herself, and I try to use that as a guide. It’s easy when you’re in the public eye to become overly aware of what other people think you should do and shouldn’t do. It’s too many notes. **Your show** **_New Girl_** **had its love interests get together and break up, and the show came back stronger than ever. Why did that work so well?** _The Office_ was great, and I’m sure they would have survived if Jim and Pam had broken up. But in _New Girl_, the crux of the show was, there were these people who hadn’t figured it out. If they figured it out, then there really is no show. It’s a more modern idea of romance–the romance is between the friends. **What are the challenges of telling a love story on TV?** When these people are just dating, the idea is to throw them with lots of people. It looks like they’re dating at a speed no normal human being dates. There’s some suspension of disbelief. **Do you agree with critics who say the romantic comedy is dying in film but finding new life on television?** I don’t know if it’s dying in film–it’s in need of a reinvention. It’s such a narrow genre because it basically involves the same thing happening every time. The romantic comedy is an evolution of the screwball comedy from the 1930s, but the screwball comedy had a broader range of topics. To surprise people, you need to keep changing things up. **You said that you feel like an outsider in Hollywood. Do you still feel like that?** One hundred percent. Feeling like an outsider is part of my nature, and it’s what makes me who I am, so I think I’ll find a way to make myself feel like an outsider no matter what situation I’m in. **You dropped out of Northwestern University your freshman year after being cast in** **_Almost Famous_** **. Do you ever miss college?** There were areas I would have liked to explore academically, but I had my own education growing up and doing movies. I read a lot. I try to teach myself anything I want to learn. I would have liked to finish, but I would have missed a ton of opportunities. **You co-founded the women’s lifestyle site HelloGiggles. What void did it fill online?** When we started four years ago, there weren’t a lot of positive women’s communities. We put in a ton of checks and balances at the beginning to avoid people ever saying anything mean about each other. It’s strange because a lot of people are like, You can’t change human nature–people are inherently negative. I don’t think that’s true. If you expect the best of people, they’ll step up. **Last year you spoke out about why embracing femininity didn’t make you any less of a feminist. What inspired you?** There was a moment in the mid-2000s when a lot of the women in the public eye weren’t saying they were feminists, and that \[bothered\] me. It was stigmatized. That’s why being attacked for being feminine really ticked me off, because why can’t you be feminine and a feminist at the same time? It shouldn’t matter what I look like. **Would you play a superhero?** Yeah! I’m not against it at all. I like those movies. 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