No one has a favorite book - they just fall in love with the spell the author put into the pages.

When we asked him to sum up his impression of the girls' emotional state at that point, he said, "Buffeted but not broken.

I'd do anything for you, Tessa. I know you don't realize that now, but you will.

Love the sea? I dote upon it - from the beach.

Surely it isn't illegal here to complain about young people these days? How cruel. I had thought it a basic part of human nature, one of the few universally practiced human customs.

I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.

A script is a very rough material in a way. Whatever questions you might have regarding the script, you might find the beginning of the answers in the book.

Most of us are referees at heart; we like to call throws and errors on someone else.

My own standards that I'll hold myself to is if the product that I'm making feels honest and it feels like I didn't compromise and it just came from an honest, correct place.

[News is] a first rough draft of history.

Everyone has a warped vision of Hollywood and what success in Hollywood is like.