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00:00I started writing The Fault in Our Stars in 2000

00:03when I was working as a student chaplain at a children's hospital.

00:07I worked there for about seven months,

00:09and I really wanted to write a story, a love story,

00:13about sick kids who were, as I knew them,

00:17funny and full of life and great fun to be around.

00:21But I had a lot of trouble getting into the story,

00:23and so it actually took seven or eight years

00:25before I really started to make any progress.

00:28And a lot of the reason I was eventually able to write the book

00:30was because of my friendship with a young woman named Esther Earle

00:33to whom the book is dedicated.

00:35Esther died of cancer when she was 16 in 2010,

00:39but our friendship and the joy that she had in her life

00:44were huge inspirations for the book.

00:49I always knew I wanted The Fault in Our Stars to be a love story,

00:52but it wasn't clear to me for a long time

00:55what kind of love story it would be.

00:58The typical sick kid love story narrative

01:04is about one sick kid and one healthy kid,

01:06and then the healthy kid learns important lessons

01:08about how to be grateful for every day from the sick kid,

01:10and that's the reason that the sick kid exists.

01:13I didn't want to tell that story.

01:15And so finally, after many years of looking for them,

01:18I found Hazel and Augustus, these two kids with very different ideas

01:22about what constitutes a well-lived life,

01:25with very different world views in lots of different ways,

01:29but who are brought together by their love for each other

01:32and their love for a book.

01:34Hazel's a pretty sarcastic person,

01:38and she definitely has a kind of gallows sense of humor

01:41that I borrowed a lot from the friends I've had

01:46who've had cancer or other serious illnesses,

01:49but she's also very loving and deeply, deeply concerned

01:55about the effect that her illness has on the people around her,

02:00particularly her parents.

02:01And she doesn't want to be what she calls a grenade.

02:04You know, she doesn't want to be someone

02:06whose death causes pain in the world.

02:10She doesn't want to cause pain in the world,

02:12and she's very hyper-conscious of that.

02:17There's a nice line in a Philip Roth novel

02:20where a woman says,

02:22the pleasure isn't in owning the person,

02:23the pleasure is having another contender in the room with you.

02:27And I think Hazel is the kind of person

02:29who doesn't have a lot of contenders in the room with her,

02:33and when she meets Gus, she realizes,

02:35oh, well, this guy can hang with me.

02:38This guy can, you know, he can talk as fast as I can,

02:42and he knows a lot of the words that I know,

02:44and I've got a contender in the room here.

02:47And I think for Gus, it's very much the same thing.

02:49He's used to being able to get girls,

02:52but he's not used to being able to...

02:54He's never encountered a girl like Hazel before.

02:59Shailene Woodley sent me an email that was like 30 pages long

03:04about how much she loved The Fault in Our Stars

03:06and how she had to play Hazel,

03:08and it was an amazingly passionate email.

03:12And so when things started to happen

03:15and it seemed like, wow, they really might make this movie,

03:18you know, everyone was talking about Shea,

03:22and I was all for it.

03:24We saw a lot, I saw lots and lots of audition tapes

03:27before Shea had the chance to audition,

03:31but when I saw her audition,

03:33it was immediately clear to me

03:34that no one else could be Hazel.

03:37I saw the tape and called Wick and called Josh and said,

03:42what can I do to help?

03:44I have her email address.

03:45Can you give me your phone number?

03:46I'd like to call her.

03:47Can I fly to LA?

03:49What do I need to do to make sure that she's in this movie?

03:54I've been very lucky to be on set

03:57for most of the shooting of the movie,

04:00and every single day there has been a moment where,

04:04at least one moment,

04:05where I just marveled at how strange and wonderful it is

04:12to have something that I imagined years ago suddenly become visible

04:18and rich and alive.

04:20It's so strange,

04:22and it does feel in some ways magical.

04:25It feels like movie magic a little bit.

04:29The Fault in Our Stars is a love story,

04:34and it's a funny love story,

04:35and it's a fun love story,

04:37and it's a story about how to have a rich and good and full life.

04:43And I'm really excited to share that story with people.

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