Richard LaGravenese

In 1996, Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night' was removed from classrooms after a school board passed a 'prohibition of alternative lifestyle instruction' act. Apparently, a young female character disguised as a boy was a danger to the youth of Merrimack, New Hampshire.

I think musical theater fans - obsessive fans - are very much like Comic Con fans in our personalities. We're very possessive, and we're very obsessive, and we're very critical. So don't screw with our stuff.

As soon as you're finished shooting, you have to go into the edit room and choose all of the shots that you're going to commit to because the visual effects vendor has to get it because they'll spend months on it. So, you're editing out of sequence before you've gotten a film for the movie and the performances.

Even as a kid, I was more enchanted watching Bette Davis than Errol Flynn.

Connie Heermann is a Freedom Writer teacher. I believe she represents the best of what dedicated teachers can be because she chose to serve her students, not her school board.

I'm tired of doing rewrites for executives.

I always thought that if you don't feel the breath in the actors' bodies, you lose all the intimacy and truth.

I've been a teenager. I even feel like I've been a 16-year-old girl. So I have a lot of voices inside my head!

It's not uncommon to have chaotic writers' rooms.

I had to audition as an actor, and I got so tired of doing the same monologues over and over, so I started writing my own, and then I started selling them to other actors.

I just really have an affinity for women. Watching them go through journeys is more interesting to me than watching men.

The thing that I love is human behavior - why people do what they do, who they are, and the choices that they make - and that has to always be plot driven.