I'm the person who writes most of my movies so every role is exactly what I want to be doing.

Really, if I'm honest, sci-fi is where my sensibility instinctively goes - I'm a big comic-book fan.

I'm the person who writes most of my movies so every role is exactly what I want to be doing.

It's much more painful to bomb in front of a group of yours peers than it is to not win. Tons of assholes ain't winning awards, but only one guy will be bombing. So, that's much more nerve-wracking.

I was pretty young. I guess I was in high school, so I was probably 13 years old. It was crazy. I remember it very vividly. I remember - it was actually kind of horrifying, because one of my friends - we smoked out of a bong, and one of my friends - this was so stupid - he didn't want to bring - it was after school on a Friday, and he didn't - we smoked weed in this park called the Ravine that was across the street from my high school.

I grew up in Vancouver, man. That's where more than half of my style comes from.

[ I watched ] Spicoli in Fast Times, which isn't exactly a stoner movie, or The Big Lebowski, which I think is more than a stoner movie or Brad Pitt in True Romance.