People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life.

And I've got some screenplays and plays ready to dip into when I need to.

There is a lot of absurdity sometimes, not just in Mormonism but often in other religions that want to pretend that no bad happens in their church, rather than taking care of what bad does happen.

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

Everyone has a little bit of Howard and Chad in them. I think there's Christine in all men as well.

If we put the camera on ourselves, our friends and neighbors, we'll come up with some scary stuff.

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.