You can do everything differently in a novel. Hero narrates the novel; we're in his head. You're hearing all his thought processes and you're hearing him call himself out on his bad behavior. You don't have the benefit of that narrator in a movie. What you see a character do, very often, becomes that much more important because you don't have him editorializing it for you.

I want to explain everything to him, show him that it’s really not as screwed up as it all sounds, but then I remember that it is.

We all start out so damn sure, thinking we've got the world on a string. If we ever stopped to think about the infinite number of ways we could be undone, we'd never leave our bedrooms.

I may not be old but I’m too old to have this much nothing

I'm really not a fan of voiceovers; I think they become a crutch.

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

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