Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous.

Some tears have to be cried no matter what the hour- until they are, they simply rave and burn inside.

Although emotionally delicate and eminently bruisable, teenagers are short on empathy. That comes later in life, if it comes at all.

We lie best when we lie to ourselves.

I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.

Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.