Certain people have said that the world is like a calm pond, and that anytime a person does even the smallest thing, it is as if a stone has dropped into the pond, spreading circles of ripples further and further out, until the entire world has been changed by one tiny action.

You know I want to be a director, but you could never truly see the movies in my head and that, Ed, is why we broke up.

'Help me,' Allison says, but she is soft-spoken, and everyone she loves is so far away.

Sometimes even in most unfortunate of lives there will occur a moment or two of good.

Knowing that something is wrong and doing it anyway happens very often in life, and I doubt I will ever know why.

Every night I give a violin recital for six hours, and attendance is mandatory. The word 'mandatory' means that if you don't show up, you have to buy me a large bag of candy and watch me eat it.

When it was first optioned, I was told that the chances of The Basic Eight becoming a film were slim because no one was making teen movies, and then later, I was told that the chances were slim because there were so many teen movies, and then I was later told that the chances were slim because teen films were over. I'm not sure when the magic window of opportunity was, but perhaps it's still on the horizon.