In Hollywood you just fail upwards.

I saw Richard Linklater's film 'Slacker' for my twenty-first birthday. That was the moment when it all seemed possible. This guy gave me hope.

Any book is a self-help guide if you can take something from it.

I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment.

I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment. In fact, maybe that's really it. In anything I've ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I don't think is a bad thing.