He said people are starting to wonder about us,

People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.

In Southern California, there's that feeling of people in transit. I grew up in Southern California, so whenever I ran across a world where your relatives stayed, and they lived a few miles away, and you have the roots that are really strong in your community, that always felt like a wonderful romantic notion. And this [movie] was about discovering this whole root system that you didn't realize you had.

People dance and we have a lot of music and... this might be the closet I get for a while.

Billy Wilder once told me, 'Make 'em personal,' ... 'But make 'em for the people.'

I've been out doing signings and talking to a lot of people, and I'm just really grateful.