It's good filmmaking when you don't have to say anything and you can still tell the story.

There's a way to do an acid trip like Harold & Kumar, and there's a way to be on acid. What I know of acting, Sean Penn actually strapped up to that electric chair in Dead Man Walking. These are the guys that I look up to.

What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.

There's beauty in people who reinvent themselves. Actors live a thousand lives, as do hackers ... the personality can play around forever.

They're very, uh, you know, I don't come from the suburbs and a jolly, Disney type of lifestyle. I come from something totally different. And they're cool and bare minimum so it's not always a money issue for me.

Respected, I almost want to be revered, that's what I'm chasing.

No, I come for a hippy lifestyle, it's very open; my parents are both hippies.