My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his father was Japanese.

I was raised in New York and spent two years in Rio. My parents met at the University of Southern Mississippi, and they had me there, and then we moved to New York. I'm not very familiar with Mississippi.

Avoid people who tell you that something you want to do is not possible.

I think I was a terrible husband, I think I'm a terrible boyfriend.

I wish I was one of those people who could write script after script and pages and pages. I can only aspire to do that.

I want it all... fast. I want to be married, I want to live together... and then somewhere around a year or two years, I get freaked out. I freak out emotionally and then I actually feel like 'Oh my God, who's this stranger in my house?'

There's something that I can't describe about the city [Portland] that I really love - just physically - how it feels to walk around there, and have coffee there. Also, the way that it's a little overcast sometimes. Something about Portland just really resonated with me.