I feel like I'm part of a generation of people who are stuck in the past and are really self-absorbed. I mean, we're actually taking pictures of ourselves and posting them on Facebook, and keeping in touch with people that should have been out of our lives 15 years ago.

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

I think when you're writing prose there's a lot of attendant description and that's were I used to really go bananas. With a screenplay that all gets filled in by the director, so it just sort of pulls you back by virtue of the form. You also have to use more economy as a screenwriter and so it's kind of limiting in a good way.

I've been an avid consumer of young adult literature since I was one, and I think some people leave that stuff behind when they become old adults, but I never did. I was always interested in the fantasy world created in those novels.

I spent a lot of time staring at the clock in school, so I have that kind of personality.

In the past, I'll admit, I've enjoyed being compared to the protagonists in my screenplays.

I have a lot of screenwriter friends and many of them have had an experience where they aren't even welcome on set during production.