No matter how many times you do it, you don't get used to the sadness - for me at least - of coming to the end of a film.

I think my job is to try and be as honest as I can with what is in my mind and how I feel - I think that's what you're supposed to do, if you're a good writer. So I try to do that. I know I do that. I do do that.

I don't think it's a director's job to peek behind the curtain too much.

Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. By far. Harder than ditch digging.

A lot of my friend's mothers and parents worked at Paramount Studios, so I would always go. I met the Fonz when I was really young, like four or five years old. I was always around people in entertainment all the time throughout my whole life.

I just have a connection with sign language. I always thought the deaf community was a different community to be a part of. In high school, me and my friend took sign language.

My first novel, 'When You Were Mine,' was a very, very personal story and drew a lot on the people in my life and the relationships that I had.

It's a particularly modern myth that married people are best friends. The best-friend concept is a uniquely female phenomena.