I want to make books. I want to take pictures and then write all over the pictures. And then I don't have to say a complete story, because I have the picture, and I have just a word.

I got a call from Tom Hanks, who directed That Thing You Do!, when he was done cutting that film. I was like, "Oh, my god. Tom Hanks is calling me. This is amazing!" And then, of course, he was calling me to tell me that I was barely in the movie. But I'll never forget it - and this is why he's Tom Hanks, because he's got such a way with words.

I'm just going to let people watch whatever little movie they think our lives are and go for it.

It's okay,' you know? It's okay to be you. It's okay to just not be okay. It's okay to not be okay.

You can make a movie that's more focused on the jokes, but Young Adult was not that kind of movie.

I start to lose my mind if I'm not working on something, like breaking my back on something.

I can't do what my mother did, which is tell me every single day of my life about her labor and how long it was and how it was 36 hours of hell .