I was home schooled starting in seventh grade.

When you're doing fantasy, you can get so caught up in the magic of it that you lose the humanity.

How someone treats a waiter or doorman can tell you so much about a person.

When you're at dinner with somebody and they are on their phone. I think there's that lost art of conversation and so I just always try to keep my phone far away from me when I'm with people.

I love English girls! I adore all their different accents. Who knows, I could find a British girlfriend on my travels!

I went through a period when I was rebellious and a mess of a person.

When I was a kid and I would play pretend, I would end up with blood everywhere and I would cut my feet up. I love the feeling of it being real.

My grandpa was a cowboy. He roped cattle out in Texas and Arizona. Growing up, I'd see him maybe once a year and he'd always get me on a horse at some point. But each time I'd have to learn again.

There is hardly anything more confusing than a really strong-willed woman and when you are surrounded by two of them in the midst of trying to save the world, it really adds to some drama!

When you're just writing, you can do anything with it. But with TV, you've gotta work within certain budget constraints, so you've got to pick and choose your battles.

I've always been really into action movies. Since I was little, that was my favorite type of film.

Be your own star..

Inaction contrary to its reputation for being a refuge is neither safe nor comfortable.

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

We use up words as we use up images. We use up everything, and that's good, because it makes us grow.

Sometimes you succeed and sometimes you don't.

If I ever have any back-up dancers, I want the penguins from Madagascar.

I develop artificially intelligent technologies, along with educational and game software and let the business people take it where they will.

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

We should learn from children not to hold grudges. Children often fight when they play together but they quickly make up and their fights don't deteriorate into bitter feuds.

Listen to life, it is the wisest teacher of all.