“Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular.”

“Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular.”

“Hair color is the easiest way to change your appearance, but a bad dye job might draw more attention to you.”

“I have a love/hate relationship with jogging.”

“I could never really choose a favorite book, but whenever I'm asked what my favorite movie is, I always say 'Withnail & I,' a British film from 1987. It's funny and sad and absolutely gorgeous to look at. It's the film I can watch over and over again.”

“I wrote my first screenplay on a lark, because it was a storytelling format that felt like a familiar shorthand - we all watch movies, don't we? But even though I grew up in Los Angeles, my family was entirely unconnected with the movie industry, and I never truly believed that it would one day be my fate.”

“Although I'm not an orphan and I can't lift a horse. I was, however, briefly famous for my feats of strength: at about age 11, I could competitively arm-wrestle a full-grown man.”

“Humor is the only way to tell a story. Especially the dark ones.”

“I've always adored the filmmaker Sam Fuller. The first time I watched 'Shock Corridor' was such a magnificent discovery. I love his lack of subtlety, the way he tackles serious topics with bold and inappropriate humor.”

“I refuse to have a life partner who spends his days pretending to be on a BBC show.”

“Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular.”