I developed a group of friends around me that were all as crazy as I was about wanting to make films.

I had a friend in high school who badly wanted to make movies and would recruit me as an actor. It was always so much fun. I decided, I'm going to go to Hollywood and make movies, which is a thought I'd never had before.

It's a relationship I went through that collapsed my entire view of the world in a very extreme way.

If the movies that I'm going to make anyway go mainstream, that would be the coolest thing ever. But I have set up a plan that I've been working on for a long time.

I'm from Wisconsin; well, that's where I went to school from, like, sixth grade till I graduated high school.

But I always see myself as the filmmaker. I wonder if everybody else sees me more as an actor.

When things aren't working out for people, the end of the world seems like an easy way to wipe the slate clean.