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I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.

Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses.

It can be really powerful to write something when you're sad.

When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.

My kids have been incredibly supportive of the work that I do. They understand why it matters.

It's nice to know you're working on something that will mean something to kids.

I've worked with little kid actors before, and when they start crying or anything like that, it makes my job so easy, because you react. A little kid crying, there's not much else to do.

Such is the life of a man. Moments of joy, obliterated by unforgettable sadness. There's no need to tell the children that.