I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.

When you're writing, at least when I'm writing, I don't think about themes and I try not to sermonize with any particular message.

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

I'm no expert on girls, but when one tries to pinch you four times, I'm pretty sure that's flirting

Whenever I try to map things out they inevitably change. Which doesn't mean I don't map them out — I just try to embrace the better ideas that come along as my fingers are flying around the keyboard mid-draft!

So one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn’t become an explorer because everything in the world had already been discovered. I’d been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.

There was romance in the unknown, but once a place had been discovered and cataloged and mapped, it was diminished, just another dusty fact in a book, sapped of mystery. So maybe it was better to leave a few spots on the map blank. To let the world keep a little of its magic, rather than forcing it to divulge every last secret. Maybe it was better, now and then, to wonder.