I've always been the goofy kid. Growing up, I always enjoyed the comedic aspect of relating to women. Even on camera, it was always the funny take on it.

You don’t try to build a wall, you don’t set out to build a wall. You don’t say ‘I’m going to build the biggest, baddest, greatest wall that’s ever been built.’ You don’t start there… You say ‘I’m going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid.’ And you do that every single day and soon you have a wall.

I'm motivated by fear...a fear of fear. I hate being afraid to do something.

I was raised in a Baptist household, went to a Catholic church, lived in a Jewish neighborhood, and had the biggest crush on the Muslim girls from one neighborhood over.

What developed in my early days was the attitude to start attacking the thing I was scared of

Love is the ultimate theme, but it's not just for women.

For me, the greater purpose of the story is just to illuminate some pattern of human truth.