I usually try to write through pain and end up digging myself into a deeper hole.

I think that crowdfunding has become such a powerful tool to tell stories that might not find financing otherwise - like a dark comedy about infidelity, for example!

I am really fascinated by self-sabotage. I think that there's not a person I know who doesn't fall victim to it. It's essential to the human condition, and relatable.

Too many people get caught up in the idea that they are experts in their field and forget to keep growing and learning.

Unless you have a huge ego, I think it requires a tremendous amount of bravery to keep putting yourself out there, knowing that you will get rejected most of the time.

Being drunk leads smart people to do stupid things, which is what is so interesting.

You don't encounter anyone who is not hero or villain of their own story. If it's man vs. self, you have to explore the ways each character is villainous and heroic.

I think it's really important to depict complex, flawed LGBT characters, because we are all connected by our humanity.

You can never know anything for sure.

I think there's a lot of power in admitting that you don't know everything.

Don't give up on each other.

I may not look like much, but I'm an expert at pretending to be a ninja.

Questions are vehicles to the future. Answers are milestones along the way.

Nature is usually wrong.

I have my Lucky Charms in the morning, and I feel magical.

Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.

Not only did she [Marilyn Monroe] master her own image, create it and ultimately control it, she was the subject of many of the great masters of photography of the 20th century.

Outward attacks and troubles rather fix than unsettle the Christian, as tempests from without only serve to root the oak faster; while an inward canker will gradually rot and decay it.

I don't read much fiction because I already read a lot of scripts, so I want to learn about the world.

Until we are free to think for ourselves, our dreams are not free to unfold.

Being a star requires risk-taking shoes.