I'd rather be in love and have a baby than have a movie.

I came to America when I was seven and a half in 91. I think the first full length book in English that I read was Return to Oz when I was nine years old.

Having a newborn you have to teach yourself what patience is or you'll go crazy.

If you imagine whipping your skin every day, that's what it does and it's a full prosthetic piece.

I'd rather work to live than live to work.

I think that you have to restrain yourself from googling your name and have other hobbies and desires and wants. You do a million things. You go to school, you write, you read, you blog.

My dad worked - f - k if I know - seven jobs? He painted a house. He would deliver toilets. He drove a cab, delivered pizzas. Whatever he could do, he did.