I grew up going to the movies, not watching them on television, so I'm still a bit resistant to TV as a medium.

I like to let the actors work the way they want to.

I feel like if you can describe something fully and accurately, then people will be able to see it themselves - they don't need be told what to.

Teenagers all think their life is a movie. If you break up with someone or you have a fight, you walk around with movie scores playing in your head. You sort of see yourself suffering as you're suffering. There's a lot of melodrama attached to the real events of your life.

It's not a character flaw to become an adult.

I grew up going to the movies, not watching them on television, so I'm still a bit resistant to TV as a medium.

The world doesn't grieve when you're grieving. The world goes on about its business. You're having a good day and I'm having a bad one and vice versa. And they could be very good and very bad at the same time. You multiply that by seven billion and you have one element of human experience.