I've decided I can't really control people's perceptions of me. All I can do is decide on what I work on and how hard I work on it.

I used to care about how I looked. Now I don’t care as much. Maybe it’s because I’m so handsome.

I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating myself during that time.

I get to work with incredibly talented young filmmakers and students, and their attitudes and relationship with film is still so pure. That re-inspires me and reminds me why I got into it and what I love about film, and allows me a little reprieve from the business side of it. And it rekindles my love of film.

I view filmmaking as a director's medium.

There is actually a huge suicide problem in Palo Alto schools, so obviously not all is well in paradise. High expectations, and the pressure to achieve in a highly competitive world are too much for a lot of very promising young people. There have been something like ten youth suicides in Palo Alto in the past ten years. They usually step in front of the train that runs by the high school.

You are successful if you are able to work on the kind of material that you want to - if your life conforms to your dreams, regardless of outside acceptance or acclaim.