Well, I think that part of being young is not exactly knowing why you do some of the things that you do. And it's by exploring your life or experimenting or making mistakes and learning from them hopefully that you start to forge an identity.

Rent' was a special project for me. It was my first notable screenplay job. I worked with two wonderful directors on it, starting with Spike Lee in the summer of 2001. I wrote a draft for Spike and he was really good to me.

When you think back to your first kiss, your hair is perfect and she was wearing a cool outfit. We remember it with restraint and we remember it with style. We remember it as idealistically as you can think.

If you are in a movie theater, you can look two people down and they are laughing while you are laughing or you can look three people down and they love that song that you love. It is living proof that you are not alone.

Without creativity, I'd be just 'blah blah blah.'

All the difficulties surrounding the making of 'Mars et Avril' actually fueled its creativity and contributed to its international success!

Writing's another expression of art, really, that I'm just kind of discovering as I go.

I love making up visual works of art in language. I get to be an artist without actually being an artist in that sense.