“There’s something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up.”

I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.

You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.

I appreciate good criticism and I think it’s really important.

You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.

Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. It becomes a kind of personal weather system.

My work is always more emotional than I am.

And there’s nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.

Whenever I’ve been in rehearsals, it’s really fun, there’s always laughing.

I know that something inevitable will happen.

I’ve lost lots of relationships because of my having to ignore everything.

When I write, that takes over and I can’t do anything else.

I’ve been living in Portland for five months and I’m not sure how I feel about it. I probably won’t really know for years because that’s how it works right?

We’re so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.

When I am directing, it is much, much, much, much, much different. I’m a much more practical person in the world,

I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it’s a lie already at work.

For some reason it made me want to curl up in the fetal position. I could have slept right there on their kitchen table.

That is the exciting thing: I don’t know what God has given me for tomorrow.

It’s an exciting life. I don’t know where God is leading us. I just know that He opens doors and He closes the doors, and it is always the best for us.

Live a wild, generous full, exciting life – blessing those around you and seeing the good in all.

That’s what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It’s an exciting life.

I don’t know what the future holds, but I know that God holds tomorrow, so it is exciting. Even when I have hard things happen, He loves me so big, so much. I come through it and I grow from it, because He has got me.

I feel like Travis [Stevens] is just a Midas touch producer. Seemingly everything he touches turns to gold lately, so that was quite exciting looking at that prospect.

It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.

It is exciting to be off to a new land with a new friend.