My mom, she's from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young.

Then I did The Tao of Steve and that was at Sundance in 2000 where it did really well.

I did a pilot for HBO, called One Percent, that they didn't end up picking up, but it was a pretty intense and dramatic piece.

One thing that's interesting is that whenever something starts, like the school year when you were a kid, it feels like such a significantly huge time in your life and how much life has changed. What's surprising is how quickly it's going by.

We own our movie and are now close to breaking even, even without finishing domestic DVD deals.

I don't know why I don't watch the Oscars. It's not bitterness or anything; it just seems weird.

I feel quite blessed that I can actually balance between the two worlds, because a lot of really talented actors I know end up getting set in a certain category and no one will ever buy that they can exist outside that category, even though you know full well that they can.