My first teacher was Steven Spielberg. I worked on Amazing Stories. That was my first job, as a writer and as a story editor. Watching him and his command of the tools of filmmaking, and his admiration for writing and the story itself, was the greatest lesson I ever had.

Having been a singer in a band, back in my youth, music is really important to me.

Obviously not a Stephen King level writer, but I'd written short stories and short fiction, from the time I was 12.

Fighting the wild branches of a haunted tree is not something that every actor is confident enough to attack, literally and figuratively.

My first teacher was Steven Spielberg. I worked on Amazing Stories. That was my first job, as a writer and as a story editor. Watching him and his command of the tools of filmmaking, and his admiration for writing and the story itself, was the greatest lesson I ever had.

The whole point is you're telling a story to an audience. So when there's no audience, it's like cinematic masturbation.

It's exciting not knowing what I'm doing next, but it won't be long before I'm going to feel like I needed to be doing something, whatever it is.