In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.

I'm not sure I always feel like I'm in the seat. Sometimes I'm only holding on by one hand and flying out behind the roller coaster. I don't know anybody who doesn't feel that way.

I just figured, "If I can do theater, agents will find their way."

In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story.

You get to the middle of a take that's going really well and the camera will run out of film. They have to stop you, apologize and then you've got to get things going all over again.

When I was in school, in eighth grade, someone recognized something in me. She was an English teacher, and we read a play out loud in class, and she asked me to read one of the roles. I'd never done anything like that before, but something just lit up.

I didn't want to do television at all. I really didn't want to do it. I really thought I was just going to be doing theater and doing movies.