As a director, I wouldn't like me as an actor. As an actor, I wouldn't like me as a director.

I started as an actor in the theater playing a lot of character parts, and suddenly, I found myself in this place where it felt like I was getting locked into a kind of a stereotype, and it did bother me.

I love making films more than anything, but it's tough.

When people start thinking of you more as a persona, they are less inclined to allow you to move into different areas. Sometimes they're wrong. Sometimes they're just very stereotypical or restricted in their own thinking of what they'll allow you to do.

I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book.

I didn’t want the attacks to affect me. I don’t believe you should be led by fear.

Because, you know, you're in Utah. And because of its political conservatism, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.