'Sweet Valley High' is fantastic, fabulous, a little bit campy, and - dare I say it - cinematic.

Nobody comes to Minnesota to take their clothes off, at least as far as I know.

There's probably no experience more alienating than fame, other than a terminal illness, where you actually find yourself in a situation that nobody around you can relate to.

Juno MacGuff: I don't know what kind of girl I am.

I usually try not to think about actors while writing, because the odds of those stars aligning and you getting those specific people are so rare.

I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.

To aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible, easily. If you think about it, even ten years ago or twenty years ago, there was a middle man, there was a publisher, there were studios, there was this world of rejection letters. Now, we're in a place where we have the technology and the ability to go shoot our own movies or to put stuff on YouTube or a blog, if you're a writer, or self-publish.