I didn't originally want to be an actor. I didn't know what I wanted to be.

I played on this soccer team, called Hollywood United, and there were a lot of old ex-international pro-players. We played this benefit match at the Rose Bowl, and the crowd streamed in. It's so nerve-wracking to go out into a stadium, feeling a billion eyes upon you when you mess up your touches. That's an overwhelming environment.

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

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

Every once in awhile, when you can see shades of the person's real interior life, I think that's interesting.

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.

A college football star, by his senior year, is used to running out there with 110,000 people going nuts. They feel comfortable in that environment. To me, a set feels like that. The one thing that I do know is that, as long as I'm prepared, I know this environment and this world.