Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.

I've worked with a lot of really famous people. It stops being weird really quickly. For me, at least.

I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.

Well, I have a sister that I'm very close with, and that relationship is probably the most intense relationship of my life to date, probably of my life, period.

And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.

I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women. I'd been thinking about what I would want to do with that if I was going to write on that theme, and one morning I woke up and Calvin and Ruby Sparks were in my head.

I was a vegetarian for a really long time, from 7 to 23, so I feel like some things aren't that weird but they seem weird to me, like blood sausage or snails. Those are things I've eaten now that, years ago, it would have been totally improbable that I would have eaten.