I just want to be in good things that I want to see, and I want to work with talented people who are smarter than myself.

I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my own ass.

Well, I guess most people would only know me from The O.C. I did a few episodes of Gilmore Girls before that. I was also a client on a lot of lawyer shows.

I wish I came from a more pure place. I don't have something to say from the bottom of my soul. I just know how to take stuff I like and repackage it in a slightly different way.

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.

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

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