Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It's about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there?

I see bits and pieces of me in all the characters in my films.

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

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

I felt, if I'm going to take on some of the most overdone material, which is men and women and affairs and betrayal of friends, I had better have a new take on it. I think my films come from a desperation not to be boring.

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.

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.