You're raising a kid and you give it food and shelter and, most importantly, you give it the feeling that it's special. I think people react to celebrities like that - I mean, they treat celebrities like children.

Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.

I think [kids] enjoy reading, but it's a different world now. There are a lot of competitors for the imaginative attention.

I think people still have a need for miracles. Science keeps telling them there's no life on Mars, there's no God, nothing's trailing Hale-Bopp, those people are just dead in their Nikes. But they want to believe in something.

It's hard to find scripts that know what they are from page one to page 115.

I'm half Jewish, half Scottish. It's hard for me to buy anything.

I also watch a lot of really bad television when I'm writing, "Like Dancing With the Stars," with my daughter.