I learned to choose my battles. Sometimes I let my producer deal with something that I didn't want to deal with.

There's something touching about a kid who's reading a book that's printed on actual paper. I think that anything that kids start reading, within reason, can lead to other discoveries.

Here's the problem: I don't like who I've become when my iPhone is within reach. I find myself checking e-mails and responding to texts throughout the day with some kind of Pavlovian ferocity - it's not a conscious act, but a reflexive one.

When I'm working, it's great. When I'm not working, it's great.

I really like to travel when I write. Something about seeing new things and being in new cultures and environments provokes new thoughts in your head.

Talk about what you love and keep quiet about what you don't.

My film school is making movies. But, I do think that being an actor has served me immensely, as both a writer and director, in terms of knowing what is playable and what will be fun to play, for actors, and also how to communicate to actors on set, and not screw them up and get them in their head.