and in the meantime don't jump to conclusions.

I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking.

Every writer scrounges for inspiration in different places, and there's no shame in raiding the headlines. It's necessary, in fact, when attempting contemporary satire. Sharp-edged humor relies on topical reference points.

When I was writing Razor Girl, I thought it would be fun to have a redneck TV family that was really just a bunch of actors who had to be trained to be rednecks. That's not so farfetched, if you know how Hollywood works.

That's what people do when they find a special place that wild and full of life, they trample it to death.

The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.

Disney is just Disney. It's a company that's very good at what it does - controlling and promoting an image - until something happens that it can't control or cover up.