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I've rewritten other films and watched my writing be mutilated, but luckily, it's been mutilated anonymously.

What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to be misrepresentative of what I'm about as a person and as a writer.

It's hard when you read an article saying bad things about you. It is as if someone is sticking a knife on your heart. But I am the harshest critic of my work.

It's always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting.

Don't get me wrong, some of the mis-informed articles I have read over the last few weeks have been incredibly frustrating, but for my part I fully appreciate the opportunity I have been given and want to grasp it firmly.

The biggest problem I have in journalism is being quoted or misquoted and then being asked to defend something I haven't said.

When you do a piece of journalism, you may have to cut away 95 percent of what you are experiencing.

I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.

When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with the hearts and minds of America.

I don't really read a lot of newspapers. I don't pay attention to what is being said or written about me. I've had lots of experiences in the past when I got too much into it. That sort of diverts your focus.