I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.

In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.

I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.

I love theater. I grew up doing theater.

I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.

After I won the Tony Award, the film floodgates opened, so I was like a kid in a candy store.

When I was a kid, I would make kung fu movies with the kids in the neighborhood, and I would be the guy behind the camera directing everybody, but they were all very silly little shorts and comedy bits.