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.

San Diego was fantastic. I think there's something about San Diego that is quite different than Los Angeles.

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.

There's a certain kind of existential freedom that comes to people who realize that all the things that they hold onto and that they think define them, once they're gone, there's this new freedom to determine the way you're going to live your life.

I remember working on movies like Gettysburg and feeling that Jeff Daniels was kind of a mentor.

I wanna be the villain. Villains have fun.