To be honest, when you're young and you watch The Deer Hunter for the first time, that's when you're like, "That's what I want to do."

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

Once a film is made and it exists, someone somewhere is going to watch it and that is kind of the magic of it all.

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.

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.

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.

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