The writing process was some of the most exciting and rewarding moments of my life. It felt a lot like being in a band.

If you can channel the best part of you that is bigger than yourself, where it’s not about your ego and not about getting ahead, then you can have fun and you aren’t jealous of others. You see other people's talent as another branch of your own. You can keep it rooted in joy. Life is long and there are plenty of opportunities to make mistakes. The point of it all is to learn.

One of the things that's really lousy about making movies is that you have such little interaction with your audience.

Life's hard. It's supposed to be. If we didn't suffer, we'd never learn anything.

One of the things that separates a good genre movie from a bad genre movie, I always think, ironically, is when you care about the people. The dime a dozen ones are where you don't have any awareness of the character.

If you don't give inspiration an opportunity, it will never arrive.

I'm magically delicious.