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

It was all that stuff about taking your parents' car when you're 13, sneaking booze into rock shows and ditching school with your friends. I could relate to that as a former teenager, rather than as a present parent.

It didn't get into Sundance although I showed a rough cut which is a mistake to all filmmakers out there.

I felt like 'Life' was a great show. It was really well-written.

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 think in a weird way that the entertainment industry is strangely more brutally honest than any other.

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.