I'm sorry, but chick fights are sexy. If you don't think so, you're either an uptight woman or a lying man.

At an early age, I knew there were a lot of things I couldn't do. My father was a doctor, and my mother was a teacher. I knew I wasn't good in numbers, and I knew I wouldn't work well in overly structured environments.

There's something very special about knowing what you want to do and knowing the story you want to tell, but finding it together.

Even I haven't downed enough L.A. Kool-Aid to believe that somehow Hollywood movies are an overt instrument of morality.

My kids will find me walking around the house talking to myself and think I'm going crazy. I like to read the scripts out loud and really get the rhythm for the dialogue.

Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue of his being, Barack Obama is America. The first true American to lead our nation.

When I was young and I look at the things that I wrote - I don't think that was the word they used back then, but they had a hipster sensibility. They were a little irreverent.