I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that.

I think that the success of the film is as much about it being something that families could share as anything else.

My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know.

Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.

Approaching any movie with a three in the title you know you are not going to get a political polemic. You are not going to get some sort of political statement or ultra-deep message.

Cameron Crowe is someone who I've admired for so long, and I've been friends with him for many years, and I've wanted to work with him so badly that I just never stopped bothering him about writing a script that would be for a pilot.

I sort of love the idea of, you know, watching something and then having to wait for the next episode.