A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it.

A lot of first novels are written long before they're actually put down on paper.

Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.

Skateboarding is forever, and things like college and girls only ruin an endlessly savored adolescence.

It's rare to find a film that goes for broke and says, 'To hell with the consequences.'

It's funny that there was so much disturbance about having a Catholic in the White House with Kennedy, and when we finally get a religion in the White House that's causing a lot of conflicts, and concerns, and disturbances for a lot of people, it's in the Bush Administration.

Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate.