I was raised by women.

But no one told me that when you're in the military, they own you.

When you act with phenomenal actors, it makes your job much easier because all you have to do is react.

You go back to my town, it's like going back to the 1960s... just not a great place to grow up.

I went down the creative path in my teen years, and when I was in high school, in my junior year, I would perform at this program that was very similar to 'School of Rock.' That was when I started writing and realized that's what I wanted to do.

I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.

When children draw or do rudimentary painting, the whole human being develops an interest in what is being done. This is why we should allow writing to develop from drawing.

Knowing about authors' beliefs helps you understand how those beliefs influence their writing, and things you thought meant one thing, once you've got enough information about that writer, you suddenly realize mean an entirely different thing. That makes a difference.