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.

Taking a chance and stepping beyond the safety of the world we've always known is the only way to grow.

I guess I'm up to about 70% of normal, which is a real relief. My doctor gave me clearance to go out in public again, so I've been able to go to the store and help out a little bit around the house.

I spent a lot of my childhood not fitting in, in a lot of different ways.

Even when I was little and going on auditions, it was clear who was there because they wanted to be there, and who was there because their stage parents were making them be there. There was a major difference.

When I was a boy I was called a nerd all the time — because I didn’t like sports, I loved to read, I liked math and science, I thought school was really cool — and it hurt a lot. Because it’s never ok when a person makes fun of you for something you didn’t choose. You know, we don’t choose to be nerds. We can’t help it that we like these things — and we shouldn’t apologize for liking these things.

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.