girlwithlatte:

“Juno stopped me in my tracks. I had never read anything like it. It was so innovative in its language but also in its structural devices and the decisions the characters made and its point of view on every character. I remember I asked Diablo Cody, ‘How did you figure out how to write a screenplay?’ She said ‘I bought the published script of Ghost World and realized that the character and the dialogue go in the middle and the action goes on the left.’

She said, ‘I wrote it in the McDonalds section of a Target on my 15 minute breaks from my job at an advertising agency.’”

— Jason Reitman, Juno Director

I watched a documentary about the Oscars three weeks ago and I have literally thought about this quote every single day since.