I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.

People have perhaps gotten to the point where for the most part movies are a just bit of escape.

I wanted to tell a story that interested me as much in the telling as in the watching.

I was always looking for the most dramatic emphasis. One example would be the letter writing, or the reading of the letters. If you remember from the book, they find the letters and then in the most undramatic way they take them downstairs, they get approval, they sit at a table during the day with their own author, across from each other.

I didn't choose BYU, I like to think it chose me.

Movies are - all I've found is that they're just tougher and tougher to make.

But even with a character like Cary who is relatively outlandish, at the end of the movie he's in a place where I wouldn't have expected him to be - taking on the responsibility of a woman who is pregnant and who used to be his best friend's wife.