I always revered people that I thought had an idea and proceeded through with it. I guess I've been that way since the day I called my father and told him I was going to study acting and maybe try to see if I could do well with that, and he told me: "Don't do that. You don't want to do that, that's just dream stuff. Get a legitimate job and move forward."

[FBI] philosophy is "Go ahead and make the story you want to make, and hopefully we'll love it." So that's that.

I just don't want to copy the current trends or do movies for teenagers. I want people to get more out of movies.

I don't watch a lot of films. I'm usually involved in making them.

You have to go with your instincts.

The reason I still work at this stage of life is because I enjoy learning something new each day.

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.