Stand By Me' was really great for me and my buddies; we'd all watch that together because that was us - we were down in the creek and hanging out every day and going on little adventures. I had about sixteen friends who are all about the same age as me and lived in a three-block radius. We spent our entire childhood down in that creek.

I make different choices in regards to the stories I want to be a part of. In my mind, it's a totally different medium. Commercials are little skits, and movies are stories; I became a little more picky in my choices for stories that I wanted to be involved in.

Not all pictures but some pictures you're like, "Wow, I wish I could be there" or you feel like you are there. I don't know what it is about cinematography.

I just want to keep laying down really great, strong characters, and the more I go unrecognized, the better job I feel I'm doing.

I had a love for photography, which of course rolled into cinematography.

I did theater as a kid, more of an after-school program. But every night I would put on a movie and fall asleep to it.

I've been doing independent films for 10 years, but one out of five didn't see the light of day.