If someone is talking to you and tells you that you ought to do something, and you can tell they mean it, those are the scary people. Those are the people you want to watch out for.

People's attention spans are a little shorter these days. Same thing with food and movies.

LA has its own vibe. It has a charm that a lot of people overlook sometimes.

When I was coming up, if you were on a TV show, that meant something was wrong with your career. Now it means something's right with your career.

I believe in running through the rain and crashing into the person you love and having your lips bleed on each other.

Directing takes a good chunk of your life out. It's a very hard thing. As an actor, you go in for a couple of months and do your job, and then you move onto another one. As a director, it's with you for quite some time and you're responsible for the entire thing, whether the results are good or bad, or whether people throw darts at you or put you on a pedestal.

Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream.