At this point in my life, I'm not looking for any happy endings. I'm just looking to get things started.

It would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the sum total of what you see.

It's sort of an organic process when you're adapting any book, not even just your own. You want to preserve the heart of the story and you want to preserve who the characters are, but film requires a lot of compression.

There are some people out there who don't wait for what come next. They decide what should come next and they go and make it happen.

Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.

It's true. somewhere inside us we are all the ages we have ever been. We're the 3 year old who got bit by the dog. We're the 6 year old our mother lost track of at the mall. We're the 10 year old who get tickled till we wet our pants. We're the 13 year old shy kid with zits. We're the 16 year old no one asked to the prom, and so on. We walk around in the bodies of adults until someone presses the right button and summons up one of those kids.

At some point, being angry is just another bad habit, like smoking, and you keep poisoning yourself without thinking about it.