Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.

Frankly, there isn't anyone you couldn't learn to love once you've heard their story.

In storytelling, the audience actually wants to work for their meal, they just don't want to know that they're doing it.

I'm also a huge cinephile, and I have witnessed that to honor the book literally word-for-word never makes a good movie.

That's what great art does - it inspires other artists to do great art, and that's what it should do.

Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with.

No one's going to see my mistakes; I just need the safety of these mistakes to lead me to the right answers.