“I was too lazy to start a whole new story, so I just stuck a princess into the story I was working on... and The Princess Diaries was born!”

“I fall in love with contradictions without understanding. I can't really portray them unless I do. So in a roundabout way I have to fall in love, it's my duty. If love is about understanding and understanding is compassion and compassion is love, I have to have compassion towards the world.”