The more things you do outside of your norm, the more ideas you get exposed to, the more people you get exposed to, and I think that's interesting.

I got to college and saw all of my friends going to these other schools and thought, 'You know, college is just a blank slate.' And I had an opportunity to go to different schools, but I chose Brown because it was unique and allowed you to be yourself as an individual and like I said, it's a blank slate.

I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.

Even as we get older, we get in these routines - and routines are nice and comfortable - but I think that it's important to live life to its fullest and try different things. Because you never know what you're going to learn. You might not like it, you might like it.

At its core, 'Heroes' is an ensemble character drama with genre elements.

I love both acting and programming equally. I think it enriches me and enhances me as an artist.

The key to digital effects is to do things that are visually accurate but done cheaply and approximated.