When you're in the eye of the hurricane, you're making the show - you just want the show to be good, you want it to be appreciated and those types of things.

I love writing family stories.

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

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

I remember we had a visit by a helicopter at our school when I was in grade school, and I was punished that day and didn't get to see it. To this day, I am so mad I never got to see that helicopter land! I took my first ride in a helicopter recently, and that's what I thought, "Yes, finally the circle is complete!"

It almost seems like God is transforming into just a strictly spiritual advisor, a personal-transformation type of figure more than an explainer of the world, you know?

I've always felt like I had a guardian angel in some of those ways.