Man, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there.

People's attention spans are a little shorter these days. Same thing with food and movies.

I grew up in Arkansas and that's the law. My dad was a high school basketball coach, so I was raised as a coach's son and I was a baseball player back in Arkansas, and I lived in Texas, too, so I was just surrounded by sports. So that's what I was going to do: Pitch for the St Louis Cardinals. I had no idea I was going to be an actor. So I got my collar bone broken in the Kansas City Royals training camp. And once I got hurt I started doing other things for a while.

Every character I play is me, always has been.

I think everybody's contemplating TV now, because mid-level and high-budget independent films are not being made now.

Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream.

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