Personally, I consider 'Titanic' the most brilliant example of successful counterprogramming; the film actually countered itself by embedding an epic chick flick within a classic disaster movie.

Juno MacGuff: You can never have too many of your favorite one calorie breath mints.

Even though I am in this weird position of being a semi-recognizable screenwriter, which isn't that common, at the same time, I'm not an actress. I'm pretty isolated.

I do a nice sloppy first draft like everybody else. And then just work at it and work at it and groom it. I get input from other people.

I don't have a terrible singing voice, but I also wouldn't call it 'good.' I can carry a tune.

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.

The things that I write are autobiographical in a surreal sense, like when you have a dream and you go to the doctor's office, but then you turn around and it's actually your childhood home and the doctor has turned into Ryan Reynolds.