Maybe it was better, now and then, to wonder.

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

There was a girl who could fly, a boy who had bees living inside him, a brother and sister who could lift boulders over their heads.

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.

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.

Some truths are expressed best in the form of myth.

I just like that balance of the real and the fantastical because as a reader and consumer of stories and fantasy, I always want to feel like I can find that world.