Most journalists expect me to answer all their questions about aliens and spaceships.

Becoming an actor made me way more interested in plot.

I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.

It's always like you write a poem when you can't really say what you're trying to say.

I'm inspired as a writer by any place where I've lived for a significant amount of time that have memories, my past, and stories attached to them, and that's really New York and L.A. Any place where there's ghosts are inspiring.

You can go through life and actually speak your mind and do it in an articulate fashion and with a really intelligent point of view.

Whenever somebody says they need an angle for their story I always fear that they've got an idea and they want me to fit into it or they want me to come up with an idea myself or I'm supposed to be more revealing than I've been, and to me it just sounds like something I don't want to do.