I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you're not the center of the universe.

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

If you're a kid who is always on the outside hoping to be on the inside, you're watching a lot. You're trying to figure out how to become a normal person in a society that considers you weird.

Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.'

I really hope people go out and support the indie filmmakers, because it's a dying breed and there's a lot of cool voices out there that need to be heard.

All the criticism and all of the praise, it doesn't - it's not worth the salt that goes on my bread, because TV is fickle. You can be loved one day and hated the next day. One day, you're getting an award. And the next day, you're getting a death threat.

Death is only a change that gives the soul a partial liberation.

I'm not a fan of people romanticizing their loved ones in death.