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If you're telling a story it's always best not to play the ending.

Endings are really hard to do, and it's hard to do an ending where it's sort of collaborative with thousands and thousands of people, and to satisfy all those people is impossible.

As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.

And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.

When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.

My parents believe in the happy endings to the stories of their children.

The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don't necessarily have a perfect ending because, the older you get, the more you appreciate a good day versus a happy ending. You understand that life continues on the next day; the reality of things is what happens tomorrow.

I'm not a big fan of kids' movies that have this knowing snarkiness to them or this post-modern take on storytelling. I think that sails right over the heads of most kids. There's something to be said for a well-told fairy tale. There's a reason that these mythic stories stay with us.

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.