I'm very lucky, coming from a great school.

My perception of making a movie before I started making movies was that it would be like 'Spy Kids'.

People probably thought I was scary, but I was just uncomfortable with attention and tended to be a little closed off, except with friends. I learned to embrace the attention.

I went to a haunted house once, and I don't do well in situations like that, and I've lived my entire life not being scared or anything.

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

Country music in the mid-'90s was a big influence on my career, and I played all the songs that are referenced in '94' back in my club days. Joe Diffie was rocking a sick mullet, and he was hotter than ever... just putting out monster hit after monster hit. It totally takes me back to those days, and it makes me smile every time I hear it.

Most of my diversity conversations are had with the majority population, because frankly, those people are the people who have the most influence over everybody's career.

I'm an entrepreneur. This is my life. This my career. This the way I eat.