In fantasy, the expression of exploring another world, you get the universal truth of that excitement and fear, but there's an element of fantasy that you have to not forget so you can take people on that journey.

The perception of what we as professors provide has changed. Constant and demanding e-mails are just another manifestation of what our society has become.

The bigger budget films only shoot about a page or two a day, so there's very specific amount of time spent on detail and getting each tidbit exactly how they want it. In a movie or TV show, you shoot eight or ten pages and you aren't afforded as much time to do each scene.

Real world movies or shows that are about things that actually happen versus having superpowers, there's a little bit of a fantasy element to it.

Some of you may think that you are not of interest because you don't have access to classified information. You are mistaken.

I love to write and do photography, as a cathartic experience.

I wanted to be a pro volleyball player, and I fell in love with performance and audience response. The pressure of performing and doing something that I love doing in front of people who were grateful to see it. That relationship sort of worked out to be acting and theatre.