Parents don't realize that when they teach you about the Holocaust too early, it ruins you for life.

Don't be a jerk. Try to love everyone. Give more than you take. And do it despite the fact that you only really like about seven out of 500 people.

College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.

Eventually, the nerds and the geeks will have their day.

For me, until I know that the audience really gets what I'm trying to communicate I'm not done.

In the writing, I'm just trying to go deeper, emotionally, and learn more about myself and reveal more and find a way to connect with people in new ways.

We are at this weird moment where there's an economic model that supports creativity. People are demanding something new and fresh.

I am always driven by the terror of humiliation.

Every joke is an experiment. When you sit, alone, and write a script, or just a joke, you really have no idea if it will succeed.

I think that everything I do tends to root for the underdog.

The audience doesn't care that most of happened. They just want a good movie.

Understandably she had a lot of suitors, just like any other girls in China with two arms and legs.

Many things happened in my life, and I thought that they changed me. But in the end, nothing has changed since I was seventeen. If I could keep today’s happiness I wouldn’t worry about tomorrow.

Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.

A huge amount still needs to be done. At the moment hundreds of children are still malnourished.

I needed to be pushed as an artist and as a person.

Lately I’d begun carrying pain amulets in my bag, like some people have breath mints.

the unforgivable was usually the most easily forgiven.

It would need someone very remarkable to recover your name, Stephen, someone of rare perspicacity, with extraordinary talents and incomparable nobility of character. Me, in fact.

History, with its hard spine & dog-eared Corners, will be replaced with nuance, Just like the dinosaurs gave way To mounds and mounds of ice.

An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether.