The goal isn’t to make something everyone will love; the goal is to get excited, and make a thing where something wasn’t before.

I don’t know what the future of my career holds, but I know that whatever is over the horizon, the road I’ve traveled to get here is like those Interstates in Texas: everything can look the same, and it can feel like you’re not going anywhere, until you suddenly get where you’re going and realize that you’ve been traveling for a long time.

I'm so fed up with being told that I'm a bad person because I don't subscribe to the same exact narrow views [Christians] have.

If you enjoyed making a thing, and you’re proud of the thing you made, that’s enough. Not everyone is going to like it, and that’s okay.

I'm going to go talk to some people to see if you could be in the movie because you should be in the movie.

When you say a 'former child star,' you may as well say 'failed child star.

It’s not about what you said. It’s not about what you did. It’s not about what you love. It’s about them feeling bad about themselves.