I don't know why, but I've always been a sucker for roller coasters in movies.

I had written the script for Juno and apparently Steven Spielberg had read it. I can't just call him Steven, that's weird... Mr. Spielberg had read it and he liked it. He asked me if I would write this television show for him and I said, 'Yeah!'

I want Maggie Gyllenhaal. I don't know why. I don't think she necessarily looks like me or acts like me, I just think she's a cool actress and she could play me, so there you go.

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 myself identify as a recovering Blockhead. You'd be surprised how many twenty- and thirty-something hipster chicks have the NKOTB skeleton in their closet, albeit artfully concealed by stacks of Ksubi skinny jeans and ironic Judas Priest T-shirts.

Thanks a heap coyote ugly. This cactus-gram stings worse than your abandonment.

As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one.