I know my life is full of awkward pauses, and I think it's hilarious.

I love storytelling so for me to get behind a story and get in there early in its infancy and kind of develop it in the early stages was something I really wanted to be a part of.

At the end of the day, regardless of whether you're doing a huge budget film or a small budget film, you still want the film to do well, and have people see it. That's the whole point. You want to put some kind of message into your films, and you want people to see it.

The way I look at it, movies are a different medium for storytelling than books.

If you're directing and acting, I feel like they both suffer, to some extent. There are so many elements to it. If you do acting and directing, at the same time, it's not going to be as good, I believe, as if you focus on one or the other.

I’ve met guys all the time that I’m like, Damn, that’s a good-looking guy, you know?

When you think hotness appeal, vampires automatically fall into that category.