Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.

I totally love my job, and I wake up every day basically thinking about how can I do my job better. It never feels like a job. It's hard, and it's exhausting sometimes, but it never feels like - I would do this even if they didn't pay me to do it. That's a pretty amazing feeling.

I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.

Maybe the best definition of what a great partnership or great love is when people make each other grow in a better direction than they would have grown on their own.

I feel like success to me is about feeling like I have done something in storytelling, where I've gotten close to articulating something intangible that I'm feeling, and I think I get closer every time, but I don't know that I've done that yet.

So at some point you realize that your life is not just going to start one day in the future, that you're living it.

One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.