"The reason I started writing movies was because I kept getting parts that I just kind of stepped into. I didn't have to do a lot of work and I ended up getting sort of bored."

"If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead."

"When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and soccer."

"I just feel like if I do good work, then people should respect me for the work I do."

"Wisdom principle 99 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 47."

"Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store."

"I am not a sports girl."

"Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing."