"I'm easily starstruck. Seeing Buster Posey or any actor, anyone at a restaurant, for me I get really starstruck, so just trying to calm myself down and say, "This is where I belong. This is what I've prepared my whole life to be doing.""

“It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind and imagination to float and wander and roam, time for the individual to descend into the depths of his or her psyche, to be available to barely audible signals rustling for attention. Long periods of time may pass in which nothing seems to be happening. But we know that kind of space must be created if the mind is to leap out of its accustomed ruts, to part from the mechanical, the known, the familiar, the standard, and generate a leap into the new.”

“I would do Winnie the Pooh. We would live in the tree house. We would hunt for honey.”

Source : "Interview: Jerusha Hess and J.J. Feild of 'Austenland'". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.maxlazebnik.com. August 22, 2013.

“You can only make so much money in life and only enjoy so many creature comforts. The important thing is to do something meaningful-to leave something behind.”

“The graphic novel? I love comics and so, yes. I don't think we talked about that. We weren't influenced necessarily by graphic novels but we certainly, once the screenplay was done, we talked about the idea that you could continue, you could tell back story, you could do things in sort of a graphic novel world just because we kind of like that world.”

“I remember I used to come up to my teacher crying because I couldn't read. She would say: 'You can do this. You just don't want to do this.”

“The education of a man is never completed until he dies.”

“I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.”

“Never stop learning and adapting. The world will always be changing. If you limit yourself to what you knew and what you were comfortable with earlier in your life, you will grow increasingly frustrated with your surroundings as you age.”