The less seriously you take yourself, the better work you're going to do.

It's a free country and I can keep my mouth shut whenever I want

I've been through quite a few hurricanes. I worked in North Carolina, where there's a housing development whose name was Landfall.

Don't ever put anything past kids. They will surprise you in the best ways.

I have a gut reaction to stuff that I read. Either it's a filmmaker that I really want to work with, or it's a story that I really want to be a part of and help serve, or there's a character that I feel I can bring something unique to. That's really what it's about. I would go crazy, if I just relied on the same tricks and did the same thing, all the time. It was just be no fun, at all. I really do need to try something different, every time out, and do something that scares me, a little bit.

You start thinking the world is a certain way and forgetting that there's another world outside of the campus boundaries that has nothing to do with what is your world at the time.

I'm not about to talk about what's romantic in my life - I figure if you talk about it once - then that's an open invitation for everyone to dig into your personal life even further