People always like stories about the little guy fighting the big guy.

You never know what an audience is going to think about something. The ones that the audience doesn't get, I tend to let them go. I don't like to dwell on them too much.

Nowadays the movies that people are going to see in the theaters are the big-event movies, like Spider-Man or something, or they're 25-year-old models who are vampires, or they're very broad comedies, or they're standard action movies. So if you're going to work for a studio and do a movie for the budget that the movie needs, those are the kinds of movies you'll be in.

The independent film business is pretty much gone. Now you can do it in a format where you actually get to develop a character over a period of time.

[The lyrics and melody] usually come a little simultaneously, but I would say the lyrics are first; usually I have the idea for a story in my head, or few lines.

Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.

We didn't have a movie theatre until I was about nine, so I just didn't see them. But, once I got into movies I loved them.