If I'd kept my heart better armored, where would I be now?

Fifty-percent of the director's job honestly is casting the movie well.

Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.

If you are a conscious human being who has opinions about the world, then you will unconsciously put your own perspective into the book.

I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.

Sometimes it's better not to look back.

I grew up feeling like a weirdo like many kids do. But I was lucky to find my own home for peculiar children. I went to a school for the gifted in Florida, and it was full of kids who - we were all strange together. And that was a real blessing.