The longer I've been writing scripts, the more I find that you have to give the artist more leeway or else you'll just be disappointed. You can't force them to draw every image that's in your head. Since I'm a horrific artist, I wouldn't want them to anyway. So I definitely give them a lot more leeway now than I did at the beginning.

Brubaker and Phillipss books have always been about eight years ahead of their time.

Sure, this will probably end up being another in a long line of emotionally crippling misadventures...but let's try to have some fun along the way.

There's a lot of dark stuff from the '80s that we don't think about.

I've never had any interest in retelling stories from my youth.

I just want to take a realistic look now, now that we have enough distance.

These are the young women [in Stand by Me] that we grew up knowing and hopefully they feel a little rough around the edges, because it's true to life.