Jazz is my comfort music, like comfort food.

The wonderful thing about books is you never run out of them, you can just keep going. So I'm always finding new writers, or old writers that I just happen not to have read.

I think you can be mature without being grown-up. You can also be grown-up without being mentally mature. One of them is forced, while the other one is your choice.

I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger.

I think once you sort of cross over and you realize what books can be - and if they mean something to you - there's just no stopping you.

John Hughes had such a huge impact on filmmaking.

I don't like being alone. I haven't been alone since I got a boyfriend.