The great movies that I want to do now are being made for $2.5-million budgets.

My songs aren't built around choruses or hooks or anything like that. That's kind of how I write screenplays too.

Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory.

I write songs on guitar and that's about how good of a guitar player I am. I can write songs on it.

I'm not a TV junkie outside of sports and history really and stuff like that.

Usually with film writing I start with characters, and set about writing their story.

Well I loved Little League; so all the memories are pretty fond but I broke my thumb. That wasn't a lot of fun. I think probably the first time I pitched [I started out as a first baseman] and the first game I pitched in Little League, I struck out 10 batters. I had a curve ball a little early [laughs]. You're not really supposed to have one when you're 12, but I did, so I first game I struck out 10 batters. That's possibly my fondest memory.