I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.

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

I had been writing since I was pretty small, and I've always been telling these stories about doors and finding other worlds within our own.

Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid and wish you'd just stayed in bed?

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.

I never remember nice dreams; only the bad ones stick.

I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.