I've always been a big fan of Bill Paxton, and I met him at the American Pie premiere

When what's around you - such as scripts, or like me being on the show and playing 18, now me doing this film playing 18 - it's kind of been what's been there for me.

To me, the 90's signaled the end of glam rock, the beginning of gangsta rap, and hopefully the beginning and end of boy bands.

By my senior year in high school, I was friends with every group

What I got out of it was a great experience working with great people and it becoming a tremendous - basically - a family at the end that none of us wanted to leave.

Because I could take this as an opportunity to create something that I pretty much guarantee nobody else was going to create in film.

I didn't fill it up with movies every time because I was trying to just film one damn movie, but that's the heartache of independent films.