Whenever I'm not shooting, I'm in the editing room with my footage. While the crew is taking 15 minutes to an hour to set up the next shot, I'm behind the Avid, putting the flick together.

If you grow up fat, you have to try harder.

For years, my job was to make the movie inexpensively. And I could bring it in. What I can't control are the costs of marketing.

So I know how I watch movies which is on my laptop, man. And that's how I suspect a lot of people do it.

If you're alive, kick into drive. Chase whimsies. See if you can turn dreams into a way to make a living, if not an entire way of life.

My Father taught me how to be a man – and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda of dominance. He taught me that a real man doesn’t take, he gives; he doesn’t use force, he uses logic; doesn’t play the role of trouble-maker, but rather, trouble-shooter; and most importantly, a real man is defined by what’s in his heart, not his pants.

All these people who say success changes people; well, no, it just magnifies what's there.