You make a first impression and people never forget it. If people want to think of me as the wacky 'Juno' lady forever, I could think of worse ways to be labeled.

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.

People don't have these tidy little redemption arcs in reality the way they do in movies.

Here's my unsolicited advice to any aspiring screenwriters who might be reading this: Don’t ever agonize about the hordes of other writers who are ostensibly your competition. No one else is capable of doing what you do.

The Rolling Stones are so versatile, they're like the band version of that Infinite Dress they sell on QVC.

I don't know if I have some kind of defiance disorder or something, but if I'm hired to write something by "The Man," or by a studio, for whatever reason, it's really hard for me to finish. I inevitably wind up using that time to write something else.

Bren MacGuff: Well, honey, doctors are sadists who like to play God and watch lesser people scream.