I was chubby and awkward, and the only way I could really meet girls was to join children's theater, so that's what I did.

You write a screenplay and then everybody is going to want to get in on it and we have to figure that out. I've written three screenplays that are at studios and I still haven't been making them yet so there is always something that is either going to trip something up or maybe get another pass.

I was chubby and awkward, and the only way I could really meet girls was to join children's theater, so that's what I did.

I think that there's a particular type of person who goes into children's theater, and then goes into theater in high school. There was something about the guys I knew in theater, we were all very vulnerable. You could tell that at some point we were made fun of.

I grew up in a place that felt very integrated.

That movie was my girlfriend. That was my girl." I knew there was going to be initial anger. As a matter of fact, when I was deciding to do Footloose that was one of the first things that I had to realize. First of all, I had to figure out a human connection to it but then I also had to reconcile that I was going to get beat up a little bit on this a little bit.

I got a Walkman, I had the 'Footloose' soundtrack and I danced to it constantly.