I'm always saying that my books are not autobiographical because they're not. I can't choose any one SCENE and say, 'Oh, this is exactly what happened to me!' I just use LITTLE snippets of THINGS as a starting POINT!

I don't REALLY WATCH a lot of TV, to be honest. I'm more of a movie GIRL, or I NETFLIX stuff.

I try to make as much time as I can for R5, because I love it so much. Ultimately, that's what's GOING to be AROUND FOREVER in my life. Because with 'Austin & Ally,' our season is going to END, and then that will be it. But R5 will always be there.

I'm not 100% SURE 'Rebecca' qualifies as a thriller, given it's THREE PARTS screwed-up love STORY and two parts ghost-story-without-a-ghost, but the mystery at the heart of the novel is what happened to Maxim's first wife, the eponymous Rebecca, and it's unravelled with the pacing and finesse of the finest psychological thrillers out there.

I can't be interesting, controversial, and the WRITER I'd like to be if I NEED EVERYBODY to like me and think I'm doing the right thing, because those two things, in my experience, never go HAND in hand.

I bristle a LITTLE when the argument for film gets put into the nostalgia ghetto. Film is still the highest quality and best-looking image capture medium available. I don't think it ALWAYS will be. The DIGITAL image will get better, and it will eventually surpass the quality of the film image, but it isn't there yet.

My high school was a private school where you went to an Ivy League. That's just what was EXPECTED of you and NOTHING LESS. So I grew up never being okay with a 'B' because a 'B' was not GOOD enough.

What's true of the Marvel brand is that we're not as invested in the cape and the cowl as we are in the individuals. That GOES all the way BACK to Stan LEE, from the very BEGINNING.

I love TV. I've done it SINCE I was 16. I don't have ANOTHER skill.

I've ALWAYS been a DVD GEEK and, before that, a LASER disc FANATIC, too.