I like to get things going. I get so many different ideas, whether it's film, TV, whatever.

You could be a music prodigy at age 4, like Mozart, but you can't be a writing prodigy.

I've always been sort of entrepreneurial. ... I felt that I needed to learn how to write and produce so I could write my own thing and not worry about Hollywood finding me.

I do believe that the Mormon Church is at kind of an awakening, in two different ways: More people are becoming aware of it, and it's becoming a force to be reckoned with. There's a lot of Mormon converts globally.

I love writing family stories.

The Oscar nominations are out, and they're so white a grand jury has decided not to indict them.

You go, dark energy! Go on, dark matter. They don't understand you, dark matter. They don't get you.