At 15 I had moved out of my parents' place, and my options were looking pretty narrow. But I had this acting thing and I just wanted to be able to keep going because it was really good. That was all I wanted.

I think that story wins out over acting and that the thing as a whole is more important than the performances therein.

Crewing and being on film sets is kind of like being in the carnival, with carnie folks.

I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world.

There are two things: 1) what things one does in the world, and 2) what family one has. There's the two really tangible things that can stay.

People don't know who I am, and that's not a bad thing at all from my end.

You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it indefinitely.