I knew how to act and had studied acting and enjoyed it, but I'd never pushed myself to really perform as an actor, and create a role, and have the whole character's backstory.

Anytime you're the first to speak out against something, there's going to be a backlash.

Hopefully we'll get to a point where people realize movies don't cause violence. It just reflects the violence going on in the culture.

I felt people responded to two things. One, obviously, is the gore and the scenes like the eye gauging.

I've always wanted to be involved in an exorcism movie. But I thought, "How do you make something scarier than The Exorcist?" The answer is you don't. But that doesn't mean you can't make something that is original and interesting.

The film, 'Aftershock,' for me is really about how the minor problems in life that we think are so major ultimately mean nothing when a tragedy happens, when a real problem happens.

What's important for me is staying healthy.