It's just people who grew up in that time are suddenly old enough to be creators themselves, but I think they have a little perspective. I'm 40 now, and I have children of my own. Before I forget my own childhood completely, I want to take some time to take a look at the '80s and think back.

Just go out there and get your heart broken in, so it'll be ready when you really need it.

There are a lot of differing opinions on that. Some people think you should change out more, but I think changing just 20 percent is less stressful on the aquarium and fish. Once you get used to the regimen, it's pretty easy.

I grew up in the suburbs of Cleveland in 1988 and there was just one year where suddenly all of the delivery kids that used to be boys were suddenly girls. It happened at our church too. Altar boys were suddenly altar girls. There was just this sense that all these young women knew there were openings here to be the first of their kind.

Not a word of my writing has ever been changed by another person's hands, and I don't think many screenwriters can say that.

When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it.

As you get older you start to see these events and leaders, and movements of the pendulum swinging back.