I had a general outline of subjects. The way I start my days is my husband brings me a thermos of coffee up to the bedroom.

We had a dog, Lucky, who was fourteen years old. For the last year of his life, I would take him on these walks that were long but didn't cover much distance.

I love that when you're writing your mind is sort of figuring things out on its own, without you directing it.

There will be scenes in a movie where people are walking through the park, or through a forest, and you're seeing the flickering leaves around them, and they're walking, but you're also hearing their words. It's an interaction between where they are and what they're saying that's both visual and verbal.

I'm German, after all.

It would look like a notebook with dividers, and there'd be different subjects and things [preschoolers] could do, so that they could feel like they were going to school also.

I do love that discovery of when you're trying to figure out how to make something work, and it happens in a way that you didn't predict.