Millimeter Quotes

Summer of `93. I spent that summer shooting a movie on eight millimeter video with two of my best friends, who made me audition for the role. And, I just found-I don`t know, I had a moment of clarity. I was like "this is what I`m supposed to do." I know that seems hard to believe at nineteen, but I was nineteen when I made that decision. And I haven`t had a single regret. It`s extremely fulfilling to do what I do. It really is. Now, obviously, when I do something bad, it will be a little bit different. It`ll be "you were great in Barbershop."

(1975 quote) "I first started thinking about being an actor when I was in college at the University of Missouri. I auditioned for a television play, and the director, who has some professional New York credits, encouraged me to pursue acting. In college I had a double major--drama and film editing. I worked with 16 millimeter film upon graduating, and from Kansas City I went on to Dallas. All of this time I suppose I had an unrealized commitment to acting. But then, I guess I ran away from acting. I was afraid of the business--I still am."

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.