I think people like authentic emotional stories. I think, um, hopefully it's an honest love story that's sad at points but also quite hopeful and I think people have resonated with that for a long time.

I was very lucky to be on set for almost the entire filming of the movie and to have, you know, a seat at the table in every conversation and I am so proud of the movie that they made. I think they made an extraordinarily faithful adaptation.

Ansel Elgort who plays Gus in the movie just has an extraordinary screen presence but he's also a brilliant actor. He understood Gus so deeply, deeper in some ways than I understood him. And obviously Shailene Woodley is one of the great actresses of her generation and it was just a tremendous gift to us that she wanted to be Hazel.