One of the magical things about Nashville is just how many incredibly talented people are here and the way they support each other.

Kelly Clarkson is the most adorable person on the planet. She is just so nice.

It's a tough time for screenwriters right now, because fewer movies are getting made. I'm enjoying television so much. It offers opportunities for writers to be in a writers' room and work their way up. It's somewhat easier because there's more of a community. There are so many screenwriters with incredible stories to tell, so I hope there will be some kind of shift in the business where very few types of movies are now made by the studios. There needs to be different budgets for different audiences; not everything having to be a huge opening weekend.

Always, in all circumstances, wear comfortable shoes. You never know when you may have to run for your life.

I think this happens to a lot of people, men and women, where you reach a point in your life and all of a sudden realize that things have changed. You suddenly realize that people are coming up behind you, that maybe somebody might want to replace you for less money.

Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.

For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.