Transitioning to being an unemployed film actor is different, but it's fun and I've been looking forward to it for a while.

I started a band [Big Japan] for fun. These sticks break easily, but they feel good.

I just graduated from high school, and I was working at Blockbuster. Not only did I get into movies while I was there, but I was putting away boxes and looking at the kids on the covers. It felt like windows into these seemingly perfect lives.

Okay, using the dreaded middle name is not the best way to forge a bond.

It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.

And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.

If I don't direct a movie at some point, I've failed personally.