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.

You definitely meet a lot of extremely powerful, successful, wealthy people in Hollywood who are extremely miserable.

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

Honestly, this will never happen because she's so much classier than me, but I would love to work with Sofia Coppola.

I think I have always sort of cultivated a flowery writing style. I've always sort of over - written in every genre that I've attempted. I went to college and took a couple of writing classes and I remember my teachers were always incredibly encouraging. But it was inevitable to get the criticism: "Take it down a notch!" But the nice thing about screenwriting is that you don't really have to.

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

I've been told that I'm incompetent, socially retarded, maladjusted. I still know that I couldn't function in reality. Los Angeles is a good place for me.